Re: Berkeley DB 6.0 license change to AGPLv3

2013-07-02 Thread Ben Hutchings
ost all common licences except GPLv2 (though that might not be true with the additional conditions of AGPLv3). If anyone has made a decision to use GPLv2-only then I wouldn't expect them to relicense for this. Therefore a BSD-licensed libdb is still needed. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Life

Re: Berkeley DB 6.0 license change to AGPLv3

2013-07-02 Thread Ben Hutchings
nse when you remember > that the AGPLv3 is not compatable with the GPLv2 > > I'm still against removing it from the archive. But the new version should not build the default libdb-dev, as that is likely to result in unintended GPLv2/v3 combinations that cannot be distributed. Ben.

Re: Bug#666010: ITP: nvidia-texture-tools -- image processing and texture manipulation tools

2012-03-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
. > Though from what I've read on debian-legal this should be okay as the patent > is not actively enforced. Since you've accepted as fact that this software infringes those patents, it looks like you're about to violate item 1 of the Debian patent policy. Ben. -- Ben

Re: tg3 firmware - was (Fw: [CASE#221365]: Closed - need firmware files)

2009-04-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 03:32 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Apr 10, "brian m. carlson" wrote: > > > I don't know about you, but I'd much prefer to modify any sort of > > program, firmware or not, using C or assembly rather than editing the > > binary directly. I suspect that this is the case for

Re: New Ion3 licence

2007-04-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 13:33 +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 12:25:10PM +0100, Ben Hutchings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 12:22 +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > > > On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 11:00:06AM +0100, Ben Hutchings <[

Re: New Ion3 licence

2007-04-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 12:22 +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 11:00:06AM +0100, Ben Hutchings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > But if I rename before uploading the package to Debian, then that > > provision is nullified. So I think the licence would th

Re: New Ion3 licence

2007-04-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
s with Firefox/Iceweasel, as I expected[2]. (However, there is already an icewm, so I can't take quite the same approach. :-)) [1] http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/ion-general/2007-April/001967.html [2] http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/ion-general/2007-March/001827.html Ben. --

Re: New Ion3 licence

2007-04-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > This one time, at band camp, Francesco Poli said: > > > On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 19:27:57 +0100 Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > > > [...] > > > >

Re: New Ion3 licence

2007-04-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 18:26 -0400, Jordi Gutierrez Hermoso wrote: > On 27/04/07, Ben Hutchings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The author of Ion3 (which I maintain) is proposing to introduce a new > > licence[1] which includes the clause: > > > > > 3. Redistr

New Ion3 licence

2007-04-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
kage name change. Any other opinion on that? Ben. [1] http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/ion-general/2007-April/001959.html -- Ben Hutchings If God had intended Man to program, we'd have been born with serial I/O ports. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Not-so-mass bug filing for the patented IDEA algorithm

2007-04-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
an implementation, so only distributing binaries that include the claimed invention could infringe. I'm not sure whether this has been legally tested. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings If God had intended Man to program, we'd have been born with serial I/O ports. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Proposed licence for Debconf video recordings

2006-05-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
POSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION -WITH THE RECORDING OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE RECORDING. +WITH THE

Re: [Debconf-video] Re: Proposed licence for Debconf video recordings

2006-05-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
[Sorry for the dupe, Don. I meant to reply only to these lists.] Don Armstrong wrote: > On Mon, 15 May 2006, Ben Hutchings wrote: Thanks for the diff. > This is pretty much is just the XFree86 license; I don't think there's > any problem with works under this licence be

Re: [Debconf-video] Re: Proposed licence for Debconf video recordings

2006-05-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
Francesco Poli wrote: > On Mon, 15 May 2006 03:34:12 +0100 Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > This is a proposed licence text for the Debconf video recordings > > (and potentially other audio and video recordings), based on the MIT/X > > licence: > > > > He

Proposed licence for Debconf video recordings

2006-05-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
could legally remove the copyright notice and permission notice? The lack of a clear distinction between source and binary for video means that the licence is much more like copyleft than the originali (but without any mention of a preferred form). Does anyone on the video team see this as a problem?