Re: Proposed: Debian's Five Freedoms for Free Works

2003-06-13 Thread Greg Pomerantz
Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would say that the controlling preference is that of the person who > last modified the Work and distributed it in that modified form. Anyone > downstream from that person would have to keep the "source" in that form > and the "binary" together. I t

Re: non-enforcability of the BSD advertising clause

2003-05-09 Thread Greg Pomerantz
ate) actual signed license agreements plus a distrtibution fee. The actual license agreement (as of 4.4BSD-Lite in 1994) was two dense pages of text and definately a contract. Take care, Greg Pomerantz (this is not legal advice)

Re: GFDL Freeness and Cover Texts

2003-05-09 Thread Greg Pomerantz
> > > They are also not enforceable in the US. > > > > Can you please provide a citation for this? I've never been able to come > > up with one. > > This is what I know from Eben Moglen; I would ask him if he can give > you more exact citations. Also maybe look at the briefs that AT&T > filed in

Re: [OT] Droit d'auteur vs. free software?

2003-05-02 Thread Greg Pomerantz
AME to make copy protected CDs (see http://news.com.com/2100-1023-277197.html). How is it stupid if the LAME developers walk into a moral rights jurisdiction and ask Universal to stop? Best regards, Greg Pomerantz

Re: [OT] Droit d'auteur vs. free software?

2003-05-02 Thread Greg Pomerantz
ever intended the work to be used for some particular evil use (for example because they never imagined that particular use)? Best regards, Greg Pomerantz

Re: [OT] Droit d'auteur vs. free software? (Was: query from Georg Greve of GNU about Debian's opinion of the FDL

2003-04-30 Thread Greg Pomerantz
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 12:34:36PM +0200, > Stephane Bortzmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > a message of 30 lines which said: > > But it is not a real problem. Under the "droit d'auteur", the author's > right over *software* is quite limited, (unlike other work, such as > books). For instance