Re: Request to use DFSG as a model document

2025-04-15 Thread Andreas Tille
contact you just as a formality. > > Else if you are not, and you know who that person or a point of contact is > Please let me know, and put me in the right direction. > > Thanks > > Marcia > > > > On Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 4:57 AM Michael Stehmann >

Do we need to hide packages in NEW queue (Was: Lottery NEW queue (Re: Are libraries with bumped SONAME subject of inspection of ftpmaster or not))

2022-01-25 Thread Andreas Tille
Am Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 01:45:11PM -0800 schrieb Russ Allbery: > Jonas Smedegaard writes: > > > I just don't think the solution is to ignore copyright or licensing > > statements. > > That's not the goal. The question, which keeps being raised in part > because I don't think it's gotten a good

Re: Bug#915541: Removal of upstream "--will-cite" functionality has been reverted

2021-08-30 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 06:18:20AM -0700, Felix Lechner wrote: > > Can we ship GNU Parallel with a small wrapper that removes the notice? > Being text-based, it would not modify the software at all. I am > thinking about something like: > > $ echo 'NOTICE: Wanted output.' | perl -pe '{ s/^NOTICE:

Re: Bug#915541: Removal of upstream "--will-cite" functionality has been reverted

2021-08-29 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, since this issue becomes complex I'd like to bring up it at debian-legal list for advise. Kind regards Andreas. On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 08:08:26AM +0200, Ole Tange wrote: > Ian Turner wrote: > > On 8/28/21 7:41 AM, Andreas Tille wrote: > >>I updated the patc

Re: FreeMedForms projet

2020-01-10 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, Jan 11, 2020 at 08:39:48AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > The bigger problem for entering Debian is what Andreas mentions, that > the software uses Qt4 instead of Qt5. Once you have released a new > version that uses Qt5 it could potentially enter Debian. To be correct: Version 0.9.4 in Debi

Re: FreeMedForms projet

2020-01-10 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 07:45:34AM -0500, Daniel Hakimi wrote: > Can you please clarify -- you said the license was the same, but you didn't > say what that license actually was. What license is your code available > under? GPL-3+ [1] BTW, I think if a Debian package is published the requirement

Re: jmapviewer: bing logo

2014-10-16 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Felix, On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 07:39:08PM +0200, Felix Natter wrote: > > Short term sponsoring will be much appreciated :-) In case I'm not AFK (on 20.+21.10. I will be offline) usually sponsoring in a less than 24h time frame is the usual response time. Please keep on your good work

Re: Status of uw-prism packaging for Debian

2014-08-18 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Ira, On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 01:42:51PM -0700, Ira Kalet wrote: > > I had the good fortune at a recent social event to meet an attorney > for one of the big multinational corporations in the medical device > business, whose job is to look after FDA regulatory issues. He even > was familiar wi

Re: Status of uw-prism packaging for Debian

2014-08-01 Thread Andreas Tille
[Please keep Ira Kalet and the Debian Med mailing list in CC] Hello, I'm forwarding a part of a discussion to you legal experts for clarification: On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 11:15:49AM -0700, Ira Kalet wrote: > > > >>3. Finally, there is still the issue of what the US FDA might say > >>about distri

Re: sift and blimps license interpretation - can Debian redistribute these?

2012-02-19 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Laszlo, I'm forewarding this to debian-legal list [keeping debian-med-packag...@lists.alioth.debian.org in CC would be great] because I do not feel fully competent for this question. However, I think in any case it is worth trying to educate authors about the advantages of a free license. We

Re: r-cran-maptools_0.7.16-1_i386.changes REJECTED (fwd)

2009-03-16 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Leandro Doctors wrote: 2009/3/16 Julia Koschinsky : as far as the GeoDa Center is concerned, anyone who wants to use, add value, make available or any other use they see for our sample data for non-commercial purposes is welcome to it. ---

Re: Yet another list statistics for debian-project

2009-01-18 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 18 Jan 2009, MJ Ray wrote: I suspect analysis by month and by volume would be more illuminating. I took a look at the code, but there's not much explanation. Is it possible to add volumes in an easy way? Sorry the code is crude at best - I will rewrite it from scratch if this analysis

Yet another list statistics for debian-legal

2009-01-17 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, as you can read in my lightning talk at DebConf http://people.debian.org/~tille/talks/200808_lightning/ I did some investigation on who is frequently posting on our mailing lists. I now created graphs until end of last year and write a short summary for those lists I regard worth a comme

Re: Non-free package licenses and replacements

2004-01-24 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Niklas Vainio wrote: > The page is at http://www.iki.fi/nvainio/debian/non-free.html This is a good effort. As a maintainer of three non-free packages (molphy, treetool, phylip) I can assure you that I regularly try to contact the authors of these programms. For the first tw

Re: question about leaving lzw and unknown-license code in source

2002-11-12 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > > Is there any way for xmedcon to become official without taking those parts > > mentioned above out of the source code (which neither the upstream author > > nor > > me would find very attractive). > > Nope. We cannot distribute software that doesn't

wxWindows and OpenSSL (fwd)

2000-11-27 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, I'd like to foreward this problem because I'm no expert in law. I would really appreciate, if you would foreward your answers to [EMAIL PROTECTED], because I'm not subscribed to debian-legal. (The relation to Debian is, that I plan to package GnuMed once it is in a releasable state.) -