Re: Judgement about the EUPL

2014-02-16 Thread Erik Josefsson
On 02/16/2014 09:21 PM, Sven Bartscher wrote: > Sorry, could you try to explain more clearly what you want to say? Here is a slide (number 16) from Piana being more clear them me :-) | EUPL incompatible with GPL v.3 | * Why? Because of non reciprocity of compatibility? | * No such a thing, str

Re: Judgement about the EUPL

2014-02-16 Thread Erik Josefsson
On 02/16/2014 08:34 PM, Sven Bartscher wrote: > On Sun, 16 Feb 2014 20:07:55 +0100 > Erik Josefsson wrote: > >> On 02/16/2014 07:04 PM, Miriam Ruiz wrote: >>> So it's hard to say that it's not DFSG-free. >> >> Is it? >> >> Piana wr

Re: Judgement about the EUPL

2014-02-16 Thread Erik Josefsson
On 02/16/2014 07:04 PM, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > So it's hard to say that it's not DFSG-free. Is it? Piana writes: "Moreover, being a purportedly strong copyleft license, it would be outright (and both ways) incompatible with the most widely used copyleft license, the GNU GPL, and very likely incomp

Re: Judgement about the EUPL

2014-02-16 Thread Erik Josefsson
Hi Sven. On 02/16/2014 05:46 PM, Sven Bartscher wrote: > The last post to discussions about the EUPL are now five years old. > As I know (maybe I just didn't found it) there is no "final judgement" about > the EUPL. > I don't know who makes this final judgement (or more generally how it is > mad

time-stamping (was: Re: debian patent policy?)

2013-09-27 Thread Erik Josefsson
On 09/27/2013 11:33 PM, Paul Elliott wrote: > I have some ideas in my head that I am thinking about patenting, but I only > want to torture the proprietary software people with it. You can be a pain to proprietary software people by time-stamping the normal open development process: http://e

Re: about CC licenses

2013-07-15 Thread Erik Josefsson
On 07/14/2013 12:04 PM, Francesco Poli wrote: >> > I have a package which is licensed under CC-BY 2.0 > Ouch! :-( > Estonia has been using e-elections software since 2005 and now it's finally verifiable: https://github.com/vvk-ehk/evalimine But the licence is cc-by-nc-nd. How can I convin

JURI workshop on legal aspects of free and open source software

2013-07-02 Thread Erik Josefsson
Hello, The compilation of briefing notes for the 9 July workshop on Legal aspects of free and open source software organised by Policy Department C on request by theCommittee on Legal Affairs(JURI) is now available online: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/document/activities/cont/201307/2013070