#144984

2002-06-10 Thread Colin Walters
What do people think about the status of #144984? My first thought was to agree with the submitter that it's non-free. On the other hand, the GPL says: You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, and you may at your option offer warranty protection in exchange for a fee

Re: GPLed software and OpenSSL

2002-06-05 Thread Colin Walters
On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 09:11, Simon Law wrote: > These 165 packages include such GPLed software as: nessus, > snort, wget-ssl, proftpd, kdelibs3-crypto, postgresql, gnustep-ssl, > etc... I'm very disturbed by this discovery, as we would be doing > something illegal by distributing these pack

Re: GPLed software and OpenSSL

2002-06-05 Thread Colin Walters
On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 16:24, Henning Makholm wrote: > Because of the GPL's inability to distinguish between "proprietary" > and "not GPL" You mean between "proprietary" and "GPL-incompatible". -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EM

Re: openssl and GPL

2002-04-21 Thread Colin Walters
On Sun, 2002-04-21 at 02:15, Brian May wrote: > I normally like the GPL, but I find it a bit irratating that I can't > take some GPL program, and link it against Heimdal (which happens to > be linked against OpenSSL), without express permission from all the > copyright holders of the GPL software.

Re: license requirements for a book to be in free section

2002-01-27 Thread Colin Walters
On Thu, 2002-01-24 at 09:43, Sven wrote: > Then, there is the ideological debate we could have, about if this is a good > thing or not, and if the DFSG was meant to be applied to documentation also, > and not to just programs, and if we go down this path, we should also specify > using only free ha

Re: Vim license and apple license..

2002-01-02 Thread Colin Walters
On Wed, 2002-01-02 at 23:58, Sunnanvind Fenderson wrote: > It's not in any Debian archive that I know of. (I didn't mean to imply > that, sorry.) > A discussion of the license can be found here: > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/apsl.html Darwin per se isn't, but "qtss" is, which is under the same