Re: Is the Open Government Licence v3.0 (OGL-UK-3.0) DFSG-free ?

2025-01-29 Thread Charles Plessy
, but again would not be compatible with the DFSG. Am I worrying too much? Have a nice day, Charles Le Mon, Jan 27, 2025 at 09:09:53PM -0700, Soren Stoutner a écrit : > Charles, > > On Monday, January 27, 2025 6:07:54 PM MST Charles Plessy wrote: > > Hello everybody, > >

Is the Open Government Licence v3.0 (OGL-UK-3.0) DFSG-free ?

2025-01-27 Thread Charles Plessy
it was already tried through the FTP team? Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Debian Med packaging team http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tooting from home https://framapiaf.org/@charles_plessy - You

Re: Another 2-clause BSD or a mistake?

2024-03-16 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Mar 16, 2024 at 10:40:16PM -0700, Soren Stoutner a écrit : > License: BSD-custom-2-clause I would recommend a different abbreviation. BSD-custom-2-clause may give the false impression that this is a standard BSD 2-clause license where the copyright holders are not the regents of the univ

Re: BSD license + should

2019-11-24 Thread Charles Plessy
ense, but I think that I have seen similar cases where it was. Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Akano, Uruma, Okinawa, Japan

Re: Freeware Public License (FPL)

2016-10-29 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 11:21:37AM +1100, Ben Finney a écrit : > Ian Jackson writes: > > > I'm afraid you'll have to go back to the authors/copyrightholders and > > get them to fix the licence for this particular program. > > Preferably, convince the copyright holders that the reliable option is

Re: Can "rockyou" wordlist be packaged in Debian?

2016-09-21 Thread Charles Plessy
> Eriberto Mota writes: > > > However, I will wait more opinions before submit a package to Debian. Le Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 10:33:02AM +1000, Ben Finney a écrit : > > Don't (only) wait for them here. I would advise you to ask the people > distributing the work what they think the copyright stat

Re: Inclusion of PDF with CC Attr 3.0 license

2016-09-01 Thread Charles Plessy
nd then integrate them in their sofware package. So my personal point of view is that shipping the PDF in the source package is harmless, shipping it in a binary package is close to useless, and we should let the package maintainer chose the solution that he finds most suitable. Have a nice day, Char

Re: Are there any stats of reasons given for rejections of package to the Package archive ?

2016-08-08 Thread Charles Plessy
Hi Shirish, in complement to Paul's answer, I would like to mention the peer-review process that I outlined in the Debian wiki: <https://wiki.debian.org/CopyrightReview>. While it never got traction, you are free to try it if you like. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Me

Re: Is possible relicense from GPL to BSD?

2016-05-31 Thread Charles Plessy
s on the OSI website, the 4-clause BSD is not there. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Re: R packages licensed MIT but not shipping a copy of the MIT license itself

2016-03-22 Thread Charles Plessy
nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Re: Missing license text in upstream packages

2016-03-19 Thread Charles Plessy
/upload So the state of pqueue is very clear. Of course, a pull request to brush up the LICENCE file might be appreciated by the author(s) anyway. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Re: ad hoc license: is it DFSG-conformant ?

2016-03-11 Thread Charles Plessy
and well-understood license Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Re: C-FSL: a new license for software from elstel.org

2016-01-23 Thread Charles Plessy
lmar, I just wanted to add to the advice of not writing new licenses, that part of the problem that you are trying to address can be solved by requiring a contributor agreement before merging contributions into your software's main line. See for instance <https://owncloud.org/contribute/agre

Re: Status of US Government Works in foreign countries

2016-01-14 Thread Charles Plessy
ve concrete examples of cases where people fell in that trap and got hurt since then ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Re: debian status on using the PHP license for pear/pecl extensions

2016-01-13 Thread Charles Plessy
AM, Ferenc Kovacs wrote: >>> >>> Bump > On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 11:01 PM, Ferenc Kovacs wrote: > >> Happy Holidays! >> >> (bump) Le Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 04:31:07PM +0100, Ferenc Kovacs a écrit : > > any progress on this? > I starting to feel lonely here. Hi Ferenc, happy new year ! ... you are not alone :) don't give up ! Sometimes things are not quick in Debian ... Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Re: Is mpage DFSG compatible?

2015-10-18 Thread Charles Plessy
long as the PostScript code" are not found in any other package; good ! Cheers, Charles -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Re: Source files

2015-10-14 Thread Charles Plessy
that the commit messages and the revisions of a file are part the source, since inspecting them is part of the "preferred" way to modify the file. But we are not there yet... Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Re: Source files

2015-10-13 Thread Charles Plessy
> Charles Plessy writes: > > > > Maybe the long line was machine-generated at the beginning, but it does not > > matter anymore. Le Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 10:12:07AM +0200, Ole Streicher a écrit : > > Why not? If I take the GPL definition, the question is not wheth

Re: Source files

2015-10-12 Thread Charles Plessy
has passed the screening of the FTP team when it entered our archive. You can also add Lintian overrides if the Lintian maintainers are uncooperative. Thanks for your hard work, and have a nice day, Charles Plessy -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Re: Consensus about the Academic Free License ("AFL") v3.0

2015-06-10 Thread Charles Plessy
ree. Altogether, I think that #689919 should stay closed, although it would be great of course if the Subversion authors would manage to elimiate this license from their sources, because this license is not a good example to follow. Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa

Re: DFSG-ness of two

2015-05-30 Thread Charles Plessy
pas and lazarus_1.2.4+dfsg2-1/components/synedit/synregexpr.pas (thanks, codesearch.debian.net), so either this was overlooked, or the interpretation taken by the FTP team is that the second sentence solves the problem introduced by the first. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

Re: DFSG-ness of two

2015-05-30 Thread Charles Plessy
> -use this product in a comercial package, the source may > > > > > -not be charged seperatly. > > > > > > But a developer doesn't have the freedom to sell the software for > > > profit to other developers. > On Sat, 30 May 2015 10:46:0

Re: DFSG-ness of two

2015-05-29 Thread Charles Plessy
m to sell the software for > profit to other developers. Hi Riley, as suggested in the original question, this clause is similar to clause 1 of the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which is DFSG-Free. > Neither the Font Software nor any of its individual components, in Original > or Modi

Re: GPL "+" question

2015-05-29 Thread Charles Plessy
it is because he modified the files, as he says in the README. In that case, the license to be indicated in debian/copyright should be GPLv3+. Have a nice week-end, Charles -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.o

Re: Makefile.in.in license

2015-01-30 Thread Charles Plessy
e copyright holder declines to relicense, you can probably ignore the problem. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.or

Re: Python library under permissive GPL-compatible license optionally using GPL library

2014-12-12 Thread Charles Plessy
oad Y because X needs it, they need to read Y's license. If X provides some download scripts for Y, it would be kind to write somewhere in the documentation that Y is GPL-licensed. Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debia

Re: License of binary packages

2014-11-13 Thread Charles Plessy
icense field of the header, as I am using the machine-readable format). However, it is not canonical, nor automated. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: Public domain and DEP-5-compliant debian/copyright

2014-10-10 Thread Charles Plessy
ebian as it is, you do not need to relicense the files to update to the new upstream release. - You can work on the resolving the apparent contradiction at the pace you want, you can even consider it a wishlist, “patch welcome” issue only. Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Debi

Re: Public domain and DEP-5-compliant debian/copyright

2014-09-16 Thread Charles Plessy
010, 2013, 2014 author A (C) 2000 author B License: says-public-domain This program is in the public domain. Not elegant, but accurate. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Question about a "custom" license from dictconfig

2014-08-26 Thread Charles Plessy
Also, the license in question is already present in a large number of files in Debian. http://codesearch.debian.net/search?prev=&q=the+name+of+Vinay+Sajip Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org wi

Re: Upstream GPL-3+ vs debian/* GPL-2+

2014-08-21 Thread Charles Plessy
icense will always be compatible, it may be better to use the same license as upstream, to simplify their work. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@li

Re: Upstream GPL-3+ vs debian/* GPL-2+

2014-08-19 Thread Charles Plessy
of keeping it as a Debian-only modification. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.de

Re: [PHP-QA] Debian and the PHP license

2014-08-01 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Aug 02, 2014 at 08:10:49AM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : > > I think that it is important that a few of the ‘some members’ would identify > themselves in support for that request, and explain what they would do if the > worries expressed below turned out to be true. S

Re: [PHP-QA] Debian and the PHP license

2014-08-01 Thread Charles Plessy
force Debian to stop distributing or modifying PHP and its modules. Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists

Re: [PHP-QA] Debian and the PHP license

2014-07-30 Thread Charles Plessy
not take a Debian CD, add non-free software, and sell it as “Debian Enhanced”. We and other protect our names, and PHP does it too. I do not see a problem. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org w

Re: [PHP-QA] Debian and the PHP license

2014-07-29 Thread Charles Plessy
the packages automatically (modulo a small delay) become part of Testing again. This already has been done for packages such as php-memcached, and could be done for others. Thank you for your patience ! -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Ja

Re: DEP-5 copyright names on a single line

2014-06-04 Thread Charles Plessy
wo holders are on the same line of a copyright statement, so there is no problem at all. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140604121619.ga21...@falafel.plessy.net

Re: Need more (legal) information

2014-03-25 Thread Charles Plessy
rd to the SKIP codes, Mr Halpern draws your attention to the statement he has prepared on the matter, which is included at Appendix F.” To me, it appears that Appendix F, which has non-Free clauses, applies. Have you tried to contact the authors of KANJIDIC ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Ple

Re: Creative Commons 4.0 licenses published

2013-11-28 Thread Charles Plessy
st, and the > current CC0 version is *explicitly* discouraged for use > with software. Hi Thorsten, Can you share a link to such a recommendation with a reasonable explanation ? Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa,

Re: CC0 and authors' names in Copyright field

2013-10-02 Thread Charles Plessy
CC0 > Creative Commons Legal Code > [... rest of the CC0 text ...] > > > Or is there an even better third solution? Solution 2 is fine; "Copyright: [year] John Doe" would be enough as well. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To U

Re: CC0 and authors' names in Copyright field

2013-10-01 Thread Charles Plessy
t preserve a good human-readability. Currently, the canonical URL for the standard is <http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/>. As for CC0, as Ben explained, it is a license, and the simplest is to list the copyright holders as for other licenses. Have a nice d

Re: incompatible licenses in the debian directory

2013-09-25 Thread Charles Plessy
beyond Debian. Soeren, are you sure you would like this manpage to be licensed under terms that may be not welcome Upstream ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: ODbL / DbCL licenses: not DFSG compliant?

2013-09-22 Thread Charles Plessy
icant cost. This is similar to the requirements for conveying non-source forms in the GPL and the AGPL, which are accepted as Free by Debian. I have not studied the other clauses of the ODbL, but section 4.6 therefore does not seem to make it non-free. Have a nice day, -- Charles Ples

Re: redistributability of two software pieces in non-free

2013-09-14 Thread Charles Plessy
n program: > > --%<--- […] > * 3) Other interested research groups will be redirected > * to the author. The user will not redistribute the code outside > * his immediate research group. Dear Johannes, I think that this clause forbids the redistribution by Debian. Have a nice Sunday,

Re: data and software licence incompatabilities?

2013-09-02 Thread Charles Plessy
signatures. If Debian bans Francesco from this list, I will fee very ashamed of us. Also, with such a low threshold for banning people who are polite, precise, who do not engage into flamewars, and never show aggressivity, we will set the stage for massive purge and witch-hunting, because of many

Re: data and software licence incompatabilities?

2013-09-01 Thread Charles Plessy
insistance is that I really feel like an idiot when I contact upstream to ask them to relicense works, and I am not able to explain why it matters. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "un

Re: data and software licence incompatabilities?

2013-08-31 Thread Charles Plessy
the accepted and rejected license is so thin, I think that we can not blame people being unsatisfied in one direction or the other and telling it repeatedly their opinion on that matter. If you do not like this, please write a convincing and authoritative explanation of "Debian's opinion&

FWD: SPDX Technical team invites your participation!

2013-03-19 Thread Charles Plessy
Hello everybody, for those interested in the subject: SPDX (Software Package Data Exchange, http://spdx.org) is calling for contributions for their 2.0 version. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy, Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan - Forwarded message - Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 13:57:39 + Subject

Re: Bug#698019: libav: the effective GPL-licensed status of the binary packages should be clearly documented

2013-01-13 Thread Charles Plessy
ragraph to give the license information for the package as a whole. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Ar

FWD: on the variability of BSD and MIT licenses

2012-12-27 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear all, there is an interesting email on the SPDX mailing list, distributing an article about the BSD and MIT license families. Here is a link to the page with the attached file. http://lists.spdx.org/pipermail/spdx/2012-December/000785.html Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Illkirch

Re: Open data french license

2012-12-21 Thread Charles Plessy
> On Thu, 20 Dec 2012 11:41:46 +0100 (CET) x.guim...@free.fr wrote: > > > > The complete text can be found here : > > > * Original text : > > > http://www.data.gouv.fr/Licence-Ouverte-Open-Licence > > > * English translation : > > > http://ddata.over-blog.com/xxxyyy/4/37/99/26/licence/Licence-Ouve

Re: licensing question for "nom.tam.fits"

2012-12-01 Thread Charles Plessy
ld like, you can open a wishlist bug, and if the specification is updated in the future (there is no timeline for this and my opinion is that currently it would be premature), this bug will remind us to consider adding a recommendation (and asking you at that time if you would like to summarise the

Re: licensing question for "nom.tam.fits"

2012-11-30 Thread Charles Plessy
, given that the content of the Copyright field is free-form. Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121201014747.ga31...@falafel.plessy.net

Re: Bug#681654: #681654 kstars-data-extra-tycho2: undistributable

2012-11-18 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 11:15:01AM +0100, Francesco Poli a écrit : > On Sun, 18 Nov 2012 09:02:13 +0900 Charles Plessy wrote: > > [...] > > Catalogues available at CDS contain scientific data distributed > > for free, for a scientific usage. > [...] > > Doesn&#x

Re: Bug#681654: #681654 kstars-data-extra-tycho2: undistributable

2012-11-17 Thread Charles Plessy
d and redistributed freely as long as they are not sold by themselves. If one considers that in the statement in 681654#52, "cannot charge for the data" means the same as "not sold by themselves" in the OFL, then it would be consistent to keep kstars-data-extra-tycho2 in Debian,

Re: Why LGPLv3/CC-by-sa-v3.0 for the logo?

2012-09-22 Thread Charles Plessy
Logo without « Debian » is still distributed under a persmissive license on www.debian.org/logos, so anybody who worries about license incompatibilities can make a backup now, and redistribute it under its permissive license later if it looks useful. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsuru

Re: Bug#687693: ca-certificates: Cacert License is missing

2012-09-16 Thread Charles Plessy
it is non-free. > > What do the others think about it? > > To me, it doesn't just seem to be a (re-)distribution issue. Rather, the > need for an additional agreement with CAcert. Hello Raphael, could it be a very strangely phrased disclaimer of warranty ? That "A l

Re: New package algol68toc: terms of the copyright.

2012-09-16 Thread Charles Plessy
them on this lit. If you think they create more noise than signal, perhaps you or others can consider asking for a change to the NM templates via a bug reported to nm.debian.org. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debia

Re: About kstars-data-extra-tycho2 distributability

2012-08-30 Thread Charles Plessy
> > Le Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 07:54:05PM +0100, Noel David Torres Taño a écrit : > > > On the package kstars-data-extra-tycho2 it has arisen a doubt about its > > > distributability: See bug #681654 > On Martes, 21 de agosto de 2012 02:55:43 Charles Plessy wrote: > &g

Re: About packages-metadata [was: Re: Freeness of this license]

2012-08-30 Thread Charles Plessy
files are in a subdirectory, the grep command can also be run on '*/*.copyright' instead of recursively; this will remove some noise as Subversion keeps copies in subdirectories. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Ts

Re: Freeness of this license

2012-08-29 Thread Charles Plessy
in a commercial product, you do so with the understanding that you agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless Adobe against any losses, damages and costs arising from the claims, lawsuits or other legal actions arising out of such distribution. Have a nice day, -- Charles Pl

Re: About kstars-data-extra-tycho2 distributability

2012-08-20 Thread Charles Plessy
ing for a clarification to one of the current mainstream distributors ? http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/Cat?target=http&cat=I/259 Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "uns

Re: CC-BY-SA 2.5 can be re-released under 3.0?

2012-08-18 Thread Charles Plessy
] under [...] a later version of this License » only applies to derivatives (called adatpations in version 3.0). Section 4.a, which applies to the original work, does not give this permission. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: foremost package - Licence of debian/* files

2012-04-13 Thread Charles Plessy
domain works, such as Creative Commons zero license, the SQLite public domain dedication, or the GNU all-permissive license. http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ http://www.sqlite.org/copyright.html http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/License-Notices-for-Other-Files.html

Re: Using freetranslation.mobi to translate .po files

2012-03-24 Thread Charles Plessy
read the URL below. . http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2012/03/msg00031.html . By the way, can you confirm if the following terms of service are relevant to Google Translate ? . http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/#toc-content . Have a nice week-end, . -- Charles Ples

Re: Using freetranslation.mobi to translate

2012-03-23 Thread Charles Plessy
d before pasting GPLed text in Google Translate. For the resulting translations, however, I think that I agree that there is no copyright claimed on them, and that they can be freely added to the original project. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: Using freetranslation.mobi to translate .po files (Was: google translating gpl2+ licenced documentation...)

2012-03-12 Thread Charles Plessy
ns. Hello everybody, this reminds me the behaviour of virtaal, which will propose to pre-fill tranlsations with the output of Microsoft Translator. If it is not possible to translate copylefted text with such services, maybe the functionality should be disabled by default ? Have a nice day,

Re: MIT +no-false-attribs

2012-03-10 Thread Charles Plessy
upport for the Derived Work. By analogy, it looks that the npm license is free. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.d

Re: picviz license (generated images as derivative work ?)

2012-02-26 Thread Charles Plessy
PL if among their worries there is the case where a competitor would make a proprietary web service encapsulating Picviz. Similarly, it looks like the GPL considers the the build and install system as part of the source code, and the clarification that Picviz should not be installed via InstallShie

Re: XUL template - proper license

2012-02-12 Thread Charles Plessy
case, machine-readable or not, you should not disregard copyright and license notices when writing the Debian copryight files. Have a nice day, and thank you very much for maintaining xul-ext-zotero ! -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ.

Re: DEP-5 best practice

2012-02-11 Thread Charles Plessy
les that are matched by that pattern, regardless of the notices they contain or not, are distributed under the license stated by that paragraph. For the copyright statements, the current practice is to reproduce them and optionally combine them. If they are missing, then there is nothing to reprodu

Re: custom license (package: bwctl)

2012-02-07 Thread Charles Plessy
If one can read it, it is written. But I am not a native speaker. If it is the meaning of the Internet2 license that both parties must sign a document in order to “enter into a written license agreement”, then it is not a free license. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan --

Re: custom license (package: bwctl)

2012-02-03 Thread Charles Plessy
ibute derivatives under non-copyleft terms. Thefore, while the validity of this concept of default license may be questionable, I do not think that it is non-free. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: Fwd: Re: Copyright and License status of "transtab"

2012-01-31 Thread Charles Plessy
ease (an old, > unfinished project) Regardless of the license, this calls in question whether this piece of code is fit for the level of support expected for a Debian package. If there are possible replacements that are actively maintaine, it may pay off to switch to them. Have a nice da

Re: Bug#388141: Ask contributors a permission to relicense

2012-01-15 Thread Charles Plessy
he relicensing would be even more simplified by targetting all contributions to the webwml repository. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian

Re: Debian official web site is still non-free

2012-01-08 Thread Charles Plessy
t be separated. Which is another good reason to go for relicensing or copyright disclaiming instead. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.o

Re: Local community license issue

2012-01-08 Thread Charles Plessy
ense.org/ http://translationproject.org/html/whydisclaim.html Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.de

Re: conflict between name and text of a license

2011-12-13 Thread Charles Plessy
BSD" is that it does not indicate the terms clearly, as for instance the first version of the BSD license had a GPL-incompatible advertisemnt clause… Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Fwd: Re: RFS: wmaker

2011-11-15 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 09:49:47AM -0500, Hendrik Weimer a écrit : > Charles Plessy writes: > > > The public-domain short name is reserved for cases where the work is > > really in the public domain in the strict legal sense of it; this is a > > rare case (for inst

Re: Fwd: Re: RFS: wmaker

2011-11-15 Thread Charles Plessy
a rare case (for instance, some works of U. S. government employees). Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: License check for a new(ly modified) license..

2011-09-27 Thread Charles Plessy
his said, there are some minimalistic license that have a very short disclaimer, like the GNU All-Permissive license: http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/License-Notices-for-Other-Files Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: recommendation for packaging license

2011-09-03 Thread Charles Plessy
t in some files in the debian directory, using the same license as upstream will keep the debian/copyright file valid without debian/* sections through the catch-all files paragraph. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists

Re: Are ‘UniProt’ records complying with the DFSG ?

2011-07-24 Thread Charles Plessy
work, I will ask for the removal of EMBOSS and re-upload to non-free. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "uns

Are ‘UniProt’ records complying with the DFSG ?

2011-07-19 Thread Charles Plessy
not extend to the information and ideas expressed in these materials.” To me, the contents of the records above look factual. Can I conclude that, being non-copyrightable, the file is not non-free despite its license statement ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, ht

Re: Font license

2011-05-09 Thread Charles Plessy
ble with our guidelines, after undelining the potential problems. This may be a good opportunity to ask them if they would kindly consider a free license, or at least a non-free license that is already in Debian. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: The "Evil Cookie Producer" case

2011-03-07 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 11:06:22AM +0100, Bruno Lowagie a écrit : > Op 7/03/2011 11:02, Charles Plessy schreef: > > > >Regardless of the purpose and the intentions behind requiring to ‘retain the > >producer line in every PDF that is created or manipulated using iText’, if &

Re: The "Evil Cookie Producer" case

2011-03-07 Thread Charles Plessy
reconsider this additional term. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110307100240.gc22...@merveille.plessy.net

Re: copyright on upstream patches

2011-02-18 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:16:26AM +0100, Harald Jenny a écrit : > > I also thought about this but as the license text for the University of > California differes slightly from the one of Petr Rehor I wasn't sure this is > the correct way to do it - I also thought about: Oops, I missed this as th

Re: data "copyright" or not -- what is Debian's take?

2011-01-24 Thread Charles Plessy
are picky on copyright reproduction, unless it is the will of the copyright holders to have their names accompanying each and every derivative. But can you imagine the mess if one had to track which contributor to acknowledge when reproducing an extract of the human genome ? Cheers, -- Charles Pless

Re: fmodapi license and non-free

2011-01-13 Thread Charles Plessy
rkaround, yes. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110113225938.ge7...@merveille.plessy.net

Re: fmodapi license and non-free

2011-01-12 Thread Charles Plessy
of our archive, the package would be very difficult to maintain. So it looks like a bad start… Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian

Re: trademark infringement FreeFOAM

2010-11-23 Thread Charles Plessy
is distributed in Debian. http://www.python.org/psf/trademarks/ Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://l

Re: package changing their license to get into main (sandboxgamemaker)

2010-11-03 Thread Charles Plessy
t makes v3.0 better.) Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101104014920.gb17...@merveille.plessy.net

Re: package changing their license to get into main (sandboxgamemaker)

2010-11-03 Thread Charles Plessy
ster, etc. This will take time, but we think that it is a better way to support Upstream in return for the software they give us.) Have a nice thay, and many thanks to you and Platinum Arts for your efforts with licensing ! -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: SWIG license change to GPLv3, wording of debian/copyright?

2010-08-11 Thread Charles Plessy
strictions but does not cancel the terms of the MIT and BSD licenses, so their requrirement that ‘Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice…’ still fully applies: you have to quote them entirely. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- T

Re: logo license with debian - no warranty missing?

2010-06-29 Thread Charles Plessy
derstanding, not on the imitation of the others. It is the addition of extra clauses and vague disclaimers that sometimes make licenses non-free (clauses like ‘do not kill people with my software’), so let's resist to temptation of making our license statements longer than what is nece

Re: Does this license meet DSFG?

2010-04-08 Thread Charles Plessy
t the DFSG. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100409003426.ga28...@kunpuu.plessy.org

Re: The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil.

2010-03-26 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 11:56:44PM -0500, Joe Neal a écrit : > > http://wonko.com/post/jsmin-isnt-welcome-on-google-code Hi Joe, have you seen the comment of Joey Hess, that it ‘Looks like the jsmin.py in libv8 is now a reimplementation with a standard license.’ Have a nice week-end, -- Charl

Vagueness of what is ‘sub stantial’ in the Expat license.

2010-03-20 Thread Charles Plessy
pies or derivative works are solely in the form of machine-executable object code generated by a source language processor. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&quo

Re: GPL3 compatible?

2010-03-20 Thread Charles Plessy
al author is not reachable, then replacing the file can be the easiest solution to the problem. Have a nice sunday, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100321014305.ga31...@kunpuu.plessy.org

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