Re: BCFG Public License

2006-07-31 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Benjamin Seidenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Henning Makholm wrote: >> What does it even mean then? Which legal consequences does it have for >> me to "acknowledge" that law? Why would the licensor want me to do so >> - he must have _some_ purpose

Re: BCFG Public License

2006-07-29 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Henning Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Scripsit Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Please quote the section of the license that states that. >> # LICENSEE AGREES THAT THE EXPORT OF GOODS AND/OR

Re: BCFG Public License

2006-07-29 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Henning Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> You seem to be saying that I can "agree" with the law even though I >> completely disagree with it > Please quote the section of the license that states that. #

Re: BCFG Public License

2006-07-29 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > This one time, at band camp, Henning Makholm said: >> Why does the license say that it requires me to agree with something >> if that is not what it means? > It doesn't; you're misunderstanding their use of the w

Re: BCFG Public License

2006-07-29 Thread Henning Makholm
's a simple statement of fact, and not a > restriction. Why does the license say that it requires me to agree with something if that is not what it means? -- Henning Makholm "It will be useful even at this

Re: BCFG Public License

2006-07-28 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Henning Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> And if that fact is not agreeable to me, I may not copy the software? > If you're unwilling to agree to truth statements, then yes, I'm entirely > happy with you not

Re: BCFG Public License

2006-07-28 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Henning Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> 7. LICENSEE AGREES THAT THE EXPORT OF GOODS AND/OR TECHNICAL DATA FROM THE >>>UNITED STATES MAY REQUIRE SOME FORM OF EXPORT CONTROL LICENSE FROM THE >>>

Re: BCFG Public License

2006-07-28 Thread Henning Makholm
is mean that the license is only avaliable to those who agree with the law? That would not be free. -- Henning Makholm "We're trying to get it into the parts per billion range, but no luck still." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: Linux Magazin Germany, affecting Debian's image?!

2006-07-19 Thread Henning Makholm
> particular written offer in order to redeem it for the source code. In order to _enforce_ the offer legally, one would of course need a way to prove that it exists. But I am not sure that the vendor can demand that such proof should take exactly the form of a photocopy of the o

Re: RE : Re: RE : Re: Linux Magazin Germany, affecting Debian's image?!

2006-07-18 Thread Henning Makholm
is official and endorsed by Debian. At least I have seen no reports of such people. In particular, the original poster clearly shows in his very first post that he is aware that the contents is not the official version. -- Henning Makholm "The Board views the endemic use of P

Re: RE : Re: RE : Re: Linux Magazin Germany, affecting Debian's image?!

2006-07-18 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 11:48:05PM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: >> > You never said how comes that something labeled "Debian" should *not* be >> > available as free download, as long as debian.org says Debian

Re: RE : Re: RE : Re: Linux Magazin Germany, affecting Debian's image?!

2006-07-17 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Radu-Cristian FOTESCU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 19:54 +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: >> You are the only one who thinks that a trademark is being misused. >> You are wrong. > You are not in court. Neither of us has the right to declare the other

Re: RE : Re: RE : Re: Linux Magazin Germany, affecting Debian's image?!

2006-07-17 Thread Henning Makholm
s being acknowledged. > Don't put this on users or customers. If you don't like that special version, use something else. Nobody is "putting" it on anybody. > Owning a brand incurs some responsibilities. Please provide legal references for the "responsibilities&qu

Re: RE : Re: RE : Re: Linux Magazin Germany, affecting Debian's image?!

2006-07-17 Thread Henning Makholm
fs do not entitle them to anything. -- Henning Makholm"What the hedgehog sang is not evidence." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Symphony OS - Possible violation of several licenses

2006-07-15 Thread Henning Makholm
t seem that there is source in the iso9660 images they offer, which would also statisfy the license. I downloaded an image to check, but most data are compressed in a format (squashfs) that I don't have the tools to read. -- Henning Makholm "Nemo enim fere saltat sobrius, nisi for

Re: Open CASCADE Technology Public License

2006-06-09 Thread Henning Makholm
f trademark clauses is the one that says "you lose your _copyright_ license if you use our trademark in ways we're not happy with". -- Henning Makholm "Jeg forstår mig på at anvende sådanne midler på folks legemer, at jeg kan varme eller afkø

Re: Open CASCADE Technology Public License

2006-06-08 Thread Henning Makholm
t your run-of-the-mill copyleft construction. -- Henning Makholm "No one seems to know what distinguishes a bell from a whistle." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: IBM CPL v1

2006-06-08 Thread Henning Makholm
nse is quite restrained and is within what we generally consider fair self-defense. -- Henning Makholm"... it cannot be told in his own words because after September 11 he forgot about keeping his

Re: DFSG-freeness of the "CID Font Code Public Licence"

2006-06-05 Thread Henning Makholm
tention of risking the *legal* penalties for violating US embargo laws, I > do *not* consider it free if a copyright holder tacks its own penalties on > top of that. Well said, and a good argument that my previous comments in this thread actually miss the point. I stand correct

Re: DFSG-freeness of the "CID Font Code Public Licence"

2006-06-05 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Le dimanche 04 juin 2006 à 13:13 +0200, Henning Makholm a écrit : >> >> > 6. Compliance with Laws; Non-Infringement. Recipient shall comply with >> >> > all applicable laws and regulations in connection w

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-06-05 Thread Henning Makholm
ng the decision to distribute their software in non-free on the parts of the FAQ that directly contradicts the license is not a reasonable position. -- Henning Makholm"Nej, hvor er vi altså heldige! Længe leve vor Buxgører Sansiba

Re: DFSG-freeness of the "CID Font Code Public Licence"

2006-06-05 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit "Andrew Donnellan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On 6/4/06, Henning Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Scripsit Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > Le vendredi 02 juin 2006 à 16:44 +0200, Francesco Poli a écrit : >> >> > 6. C

Re: DFSG-freeness of the "CID Font Code Public Licence"

2006-06-04 Thread Henning Makholm
oice of venue, which is non-free. > I still think choice of venue is, at best, unenforceable outside the US. Why do you think so? > Not everyone here find such clauses to be non-free. Those who don't are wrong. -- Henning Makholm"There is

Re: Proposed licence for Debconf video recordings

2006-05-19 Thread Henning Makholm
this is different from how BSD licenses require that the BSD copyright blurb *itself* is retained with all derivates. Everybody seems to agree that this does not make the BSD license viral, and that a derivor is free to give fewer rights to his part of the copyright in the derived work than the ori

Re: infos about alien licenses

2006-04-12 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Wolfgang Lonien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Please CC me when answering; I'm not subscribed to Debian-legal. What was your question? The three licenses you quote are all ordinary 3-clause BSD licenses, which are nice and free. -- Henning Makholm "Th

Re: Against DRM 1.0

2006-04-09 Thread Henning Makholm
s the distribution of the proprietary work does not use DRM. Strange). -- Henning Makholm "The man who catches a meniningococcus is in considerably less danger for his life, even without chemotherapy, than meningococci with the bad luck to

Re: export to embargo countries

2006-04-06 Thread Henning Makholm
orting to various countries, too, even if you don't live there. Ordinarily you wouldn't be arrested until you choose to travel to the U.S. voluntarily, but there are some recent alleged precedents of U.S. operatives extradicting supposed criminals from third-party countries.

Re: MPL and Source Code

2006-04-03 Thread Henning Makholm
the GPL requires a distributor to provide source code on demand > for up to three years (see 3b) if the code is distrbuted in binary form. No it does not. Read the GPL. Clause 3(b) is a non-free option but fortunately the GPL also allows a distributor to use the free clause 3(a) instead. -- Hennin

Re: Mozilla relicensing complete

2006-04-01 Thread Henning Makholm
much rejoicing. Kudos to Gervase Markham. -- Henning Makholm "We will discuss your youth another time." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Results for Debian's Position on the GFDL

2006-03-17 Thread Henning Makholm
t the _only_ program that can edit XCF files is the Gimp, so by direct analogy one should probably conclude that a format that can be edited by at least one widespread free test editor qualifies as "suitable for revising straightforwardly with generic text editor". -- Henning Ma

Re: All rights reserved?

2006-03-16 Thread Henning Makholm
o tiny that there is no creative expression inherent in it (a few commands that essentially cannot be written in any other way), then it is not subject to copyright, no matter what the author claims or does not claim. -- Henning Makholm "I can get fat! I can si

Re: Results for Debian's Position on the GFDL

2006-03-16 Thread Henning Makholm
e a clarifying GR which gives the developers the option of choosing betwen different interpretations. I think that this very thread is an attempt to construct some reasonably self-consistent interpretations that we can ask the developers to decide between. -- Henning Makholm &

Re: Interpreting the GFDL GR

2006-03-16 Thread Henning Makholm
f-contradictory. If you have a fourth option that I have overlooked, I would love to hear about it. -- Henning Makholm "Wir kommen nun ans Ziel unserer Ausführungen." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Interpreting the GFDL GR

2006-03-15 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Jeremy Hankins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Henning Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Therefore my proposal is to narrow the licensor's-intent principle to >> clauses of the general kind that are problematic in the GFDL. The >> description in point

Re: Interpreting the GFDL GR

2006-03-15 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Glenn Maynard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 06:28:37PM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: >> I assert that this interpretation is most faithful to the arguments >> presented by proponents of Amendment A during the discussion. In >> particular, when c

Interpreting the GFDL GR

2006-03-15 Thread Henning Makholm
. The description in point (a) above is my best attempt to define such a "general kind" of restrictions without being too much a GFDL-specific exemption. -- Henning Makholm "Det er trolddom og terror

Re: Package copyright problems

2006-03-15 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Benjamin A'Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 12:22 +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: >> Scripsit Jesse van den Kieboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > Copyright (c) 1992, 1995, 1996 Xerox Corporation. All rights >> > reserved. >&

Re: Results for Debian's Position on the GFDL

2006-03-15 Thread Henning Makholm
er whether they, in doing so, enforce copyrights. -- Henning Makholm "Logic is a system for talking about propositions that can be true or false, or at least enjoy properties that are generalized versions of truth and falsehood." -- To

Re: Results for Debian's Position on the GFDL

2006-03-15 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit "Raul Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Same thing goes for the atlantic ocean -- the atlantic ocean can prevent > unauthorized copying, in the sense you're using. Are you arguing that the GFDL is free because it says that copying is forbidden if the Atlantic

Re: Package copyright problems

2006-03-15 Thread Henning Makholm
, 1995, 1996 Xerox Corporation. All rights > reserved. ... > Any distribution of this software or derivative works must comply > with all applicable United States export control laws. This is a non-free condition. -- Henning Makholm "The great

Re: Results for Debian's Position on the GFDL

2006-03-13 Thread Henning Makholm
7;d > require a 3:1 supermajority to achieve (just like Amendment B), > and the ballot option did not require that. However, the Project did not tell us what the required supermajority was. The Secretary made that decision, based on his best personal

Re: Results for Debian's Position on the GFDL

2006-03-13 Thread Henning Makholm
had other serious problems. Heck, even *on* debian-legal there were a long time where many people thought that invariant sections were the only issue with the GFDL. It took some time and some close reading to realize that the minor points are actually freedom issues. -- Henning Makholm &q

Re: Results for Debian's Position on the GFDL

2006-03-13 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Anthony DeRobertis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Henning Makholm wrote: >>>"You may not use technical measures to obstruct or control the >>>reading or further copying [by the intended recipient] of [all] the >>>copies you make or distribute

Re: Bug#323099: no longer a bug.

2006-03-13 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Mike O'Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Debian does have the requirement that you can modify the licenses that > software is released under, right? No, we traditionally do accept non-modifiable licenses, though we try weakly to discourage them. --

Re: Results for Debian's Position on the GFDL

2006-03-12 Thread Henning Makholm
y the intended recipient] of [all] the > copies you make or distribute [to him]" But how can we explain away "make or"? -- Henning Makholm "Den nyttige hjemmedatamat er og forbliver en myte. Generelt kan der ikke peges på databehandlingso

Re: Results for Debian's Position on the GFDL

2006-03-12 Thread Henning Makholm
GR; the restrictions for invariant sections are ones that we traditionally do accept for license texts. -- Henning Makholm "It will be useful even at this early stage to review briefly the main fe

Re: Free documents using non-free fonts - can they be in main?

2006-03-02 Thread Henning Makholm
ix errors if he so desires. I think the "you" in the question was meant in the "How does one fix errors" sense. -- Henning Makholm "Al lykken er i ét ord: Overvægtig!" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Free documents using non-free fonts - can they be in main?

2006-03-02 Thread Henning Makholm
OK to ship anything in a main binary that cannot be recreated from source using tools in main. -- Henning Makholm "Det er jo svært at vide noget når man ikke ved det, ikke?" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A new practical problem with invariant sections?

2006-02-17 Thread Henning Makholm
SG along these lines some years ago, at <http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/05/msg00955.html>). -- Henning Makholm "I tried whacking myself repeatedly with the cluebat. Unfortunately, it was

Re: ICCLEIYSIUYA -license

2006-02-07 Thread Henning Makholm
ification in parallel is open to a pineish sophistry attack, but we do not normally care much about such until and unless they happen. -- Henning Makholm "`Update' isn't a bad word; in the right setting it is useful. In the wrong setting, though, it is destruct

Re: Trademark policy for packages?

2006-02-02 Thread Henning Makholm
equest by MIT to not use the Kerberos trademark > commercially. Permitting usage like that seems like it may be > something that Debian would want to require. I don't think that this is a required freedom. -- Henning Makholm "Det er du nok fandens ene om at

Re: Trademark policy for packages?

2006-01-31 Thread Henning Makholm
, not in marketing materials) even require a trademark license? I know that it certainly does not in Denmark, but of course that does not say anything about the rest of the world. -- Henning Makholm"I have seen men with a *fraction* of

Re: Ironies abound

2006-01-20 Thread Henning Makholm
ed to conform to the standard. If any > | changes are made, I won't complain, as long as the changed systems are > | not called TeX or METAFONT.9 > ` But _methods_ and _ideas_ were never protected by copyright in the first place. -- Henning Makholm "Wir kom

Re: Ironies abound

2006-01-20 Thread Henning Makholm
he program > non-free. I agree that trademarks probably cannot by themselves make software non-free, but I'm questioning whether the _copyright_ status of the work is OK. -- Henning Makholm "The bread says TOAST." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Clause 7d

2006-01-20 Thread Henning Makholm
ng to the usual GPL v3 clauses regarding > distributing copies. Why would that require a copyright license? -- Henning Makholm"Vi skal nok ikke begynde at undervise hinanden i den store regnekunst her, men jeg vil foreslå, at vi fra Kulturministeri

Re: Ironies abound

2006-01-18 Thread Henning Makholm
Did we ever find concrete evidence that TeX comes with a license to create modified versions under different names? The copyright notice at the top of tex.web presents only the patch option, and /usr/share/doc/tetex-bin/copyright is not of much help. -- Henning Makholm "Ambiguous cas

Re: GPL v3 Draft

2006-01-16 Thread Henning Makholm
LETTERS TO MAKE THEM EFFECTIVELY UNREADABLE. PERHAPS THE PRESENCE OF LOWERCASE LETTERS IN THIS PARAGRAPH IS JUST AN EDITING MISTAKE? SURELY IT CANNOT BE MEANT TO READ THAT WAY IN THE FINAL LICENSE. -- Henning Makholm"But I am a Sunni Muslim," the bemused Arab said. --

Re: GPL v3 Draft

2006-01-16 Thread Henning Makholm
many courts. A third-party prediction that "you are going to do such-and-such" sounds less legally dependable than the good old "you must do such-and-such, or else!". -- Henning Makholm"What the hedgehog sang is not evidence." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Translation of a license

2006-01-16 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Andrew Donnellan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On 1/17/06, Henning Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Technically, the statement we're talking about is probably the one >> required by GPL #2(c) - notice in particular that 2(c) does not >> require any

Re: Translation of a license

2006-01-16 Thread Henning Makholm
7;re talking about is probably the one required by GPL #2(c) - notice in particular that 2(c) does not require any specific wording of the notice. There seems to be nothing in 2(c) that implies that the notice cannot be given in the user's preferred language. -- Henning Makholm

Re: Copyright infringement of debian's logo

2006-01-13 Thread Henning Makholm
hat it _might_ exist is not at all a convincing argument for independent creation. -- Henning Makholm "I didn't even know you *could* kill chocolate ice-cream!" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is libreludedb DFSG compliant?

2006-01-05 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Arnoud Engelfriet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Henning Makholm wrote: >> Why on earth do they not just license it as GPL straight away? That >> would not prevent them from offering other license terms in addition >> for a fee (or without one) as they see fit.

Re: Is libreludedb DFSG compliant?

2006-01-05 Thread Henning Makholm
e freedoms we need. I'm not sure that such a requirement should be considered free. Why on earth do they not just license it as GPL straight away? That would not prevent them from offering other license terms in addition for a fee (or without one) as they see fit. -- Henning Makholm

Re: License of coq documentation

2005-12-23 Thread Henning Makholm
thing is just for DFSG freedom. Of course, the license must not be so specific to Debian that the mirror operators cannot distribute the software. -- Henning Makholm "Traner tænker temmelig tumpet tirsdag." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: Packaging a software with "moving" licence

2005-12-23 Thread Henning Makholm
ould change the license terms at any time, and the defendant should have known that text on a website may change from time to time"). -- Henning Makholm"They want to be natural, the anti-social little beasts. They just don't realize

Re: kaid license non-free?

2005-12-21 Thread Henning Makholm
y it. This is a non-free condition. It must be possible to sell copies of Debian packages. -- Henning Makholm "I can get fat! I can sing!" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: QPL and non-free

2005-12-20 Thread Henning Makholm
pposition to most other people on this list. -- Henning Makholm "However, the fact that the utterance by Epimenides of that false sentence could imply the existence of some Cretan who is not a liar is rather unsettling." -- To UNSUB

Re: QPL and non-free

2005-12-18 Thread Henning Makholm
ey _do_ have. -- Henning Makholm "I've been staying out of family conversations. Do I get credit for that?" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: General Resolution: Declassification of debian-private list archives

2005-12-01 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > What about changing the PR, so that FROM NOW ON, the debian-private > list will be made public after, say, one year? There's an amendment proposal on the ballot that will do roughly this. -- Henning Makholm

Re: Bug#340705: rar support violates DFSG #4

2005-11-26 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Henning Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I think -legal is the wrong list. Is the license status of the > software in question? Not as far as I can see from the build log. s/build/bug/, of course. -- Henning Makholm "Need facts

Re: Bug#340705: rar support violates DFSG #4

2005-11-26 Thread Henning Makholm
files, source or binary, from being modified.)" What you are qouting is part of point 4 of the Social Contract. Its interpretation is not a matter for debian-legal. -- Henning Makholm "First chapter, the plot advances,

Re: Linking clause deleted from GNAT GPL

2005-11-25 Thread Henning Makholm
mplied clause that forbids removing the exception, then the no-removal-of-exception is _itself_ a restriction that is not allowed by the GPL. -- Henning Makholm "No one seems to know what distinguishes a bell from a whistl

Re: Clarification regarding PHP License and DFSG status

2005-11-23 Thread Henning Makholm
r than the PHP Group has the right to modify the | terms applicable to covered code created under this License. -- Henning Makholm"Vi skal nok ikke begynde at undervise hinanden i den store regnekunst her, men jeg vil foreslå, at vi fra Kulturminister

Re: Linking clause deleted from GNAT GPL

2005-11-22 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Andrew Donnellan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On 11/22/05, Henning Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> These sloppities lend support to the hypothesis that the exception was >> not drafted by the FSF's usual license advisors. Is it really FSF >> sof

Re: Linking clause deleted from GNAT GPL

2005-11-22 Thread Henning Makholm
Gnat, including files that have this notice. But they are not the only copyright holder. -- Henning Makholm "PROV EN FORFRISKNING FRISKLAIL DEM" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linking clause deleted from GNAT GPL

2005-11-21 Thread Henning Makholm
e document a reference to the > GPL's derivative work clause using the words "the GPL software > infects yours". Indeed. These sloppities lend support to the hypothesis that the exception was not drafted by the FSF's usual license advisors. Is it really FSF software?

Re: Proposed license for IETF Contributions

2005-11-21 Thread Henning Makholm
ETF endorses the changed text. -- Henning Makholm "Jeg mener, at der eksisterer et hemmeligt selskab med forgreninger i hele verden, som arbejder i det skjulte for at udsprede det rygte at

Re: Linking clause deleted from GNAT GPL

2005-11-21 Thread Henning Makholm
his is how the FSF really intended to license the code. -- Henning Makholm "The great secret, known to internists and learned early in marriage by internists' wives, but still hidden from the general public, is that most things get

Re: Please review: The OFL (Open Font License)

2005-11-19 Thread Henning Makholm
the font _and_ reimplementing HelloWorld as a bash script, distributing both results to the customer in a single transaction. Given the wording of DFSG #1, I don't think we should consider the Silly Required Bundling a real freedom problem. -- Henning Makholm

Re: Is the Debian swirl protected?

2005-11-18 Thread Henning Makholm
with Debian one's. They > seem very different for me. Agreed. -- Henning Makholm"Manden med det store pindsvin er kommet vel ombord i den grønne dobbeltdækker." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-12 Thread Henning Makholm
ror space (and Packages.gz bandwidth). That, for the record, goes for all packages that just provide user-level content, where the data are not behind-the-scenes requirements for making actual software run correctly. Just put the stuff on a bloody website! -- Henning Makholm

Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-12 Thread Henning Makholm
tware we distribute under the name 'non-free', which may be construed as a compilation product of the Debian project? -- Henning Makholm "Punctuation, is? fun!" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-12 Thread Henning Makholm
n separate sessions at the conference, not to kick them out of it completely. But I honestly cannot see who that would help: The distinction between main and non-free in the OS serves to help people make decisions about which software to base their systems on, but who would make decisions about whi

Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-10 Thread Henning Makholm
. For example, it is common not to want to allow derived works for conference papers. That does not conflict with the SC, because the papers are not going to be part of our operating system. -- Henning Makholm "I didn't even know you *could* kill chocolate ice-cream!" -- To UNSU

Re: Licenses for DebConf6

2005-11-10 Thread Henning Makholm
sual materials > | used in conjunction with the presentation. And this requirement would be a no-op under your theory that a DFSG-free license for the papers is required. Therefore I conclude that your theory is wrong. > What I suggest is simply adding one further condition. For the recor

Re: data on the consultants page

2005-11-06 Thread Henning Makholm
cc'ing outside addresses work when I read the list through Md's usenet gateway... -- Henning Makholm "What has it got in its pocketses?" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dual licensing

2005-11-05 Thread Henning Makholm
e manufacturers have distributed firmware modules in raw binary formats, keeping the source code a trade secret while still purporting to license the raw binary under the terms of the GPL. -- Henning Makholm "We will discuss your youth another time." -- To UNSU

Re: [no subject]

2005-11-05 Thread Henning Makholm
sion is still necessary to do that). However, if you offer your modifications under the MPL, you get a right to distribute the modified work, because you can choose to exercise the rights you got from the MPL. -- Henning Makholm "Jeg ha

Re: dual licensing

2005-11-04 Thread Henning Makholm
uot;? He can legally do whatever he pleases. In particular, he can offer the general public a licence under terms that he does not himself comply with. -- Henning Makholm"Jeg køber intet af Sulla, og selv om uordenen griber planmæssigt om sig, så er vi endnu ikke nået d

Re: Bug#336982: dh-make: Difficulties with the debian/copyright template

2005-11-02 Thread Henning Makholm
ource and reproduce that _verbatim_, with whatever warts it has - unless it is actually false. He is _not_ supposed to try to do his on sanitizing of the _form_ of the copyright notice. -- Henning Makholm "En tapper tinsoldat. En dame i

Re: Logo rip-off

2005-10-15 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Måns Rullgård <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Henning Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> There are millions of *possible* spiral shapes that one could >> draw. Elektrostore chose the *exact same* spiral shape as the Debian >> swirl, and positioned the stock b

Re: Logo rip-off

2005-10-15 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Måns Rullgård <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Henning Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> I'd certainly expect a program as expensive and with such ambitions >>> as Adobe Illustrator to have it. >> On the contrary - a specific spiral template sound

Re: Logo rip-off

2005-10-14 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Henning Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 2. Swedish law provides protection agains "confusingly similar" >> trademarks only when the two marks in question denote goods of >> the same or similar

Re: Logo rip-off

2005-10-14 Thread Henning Makholm
sounds like an extremely arcane and particular feature for someone to embed in a program. -- Henning Makholm "Der er ingen der sigter på slottet. D'herrer konger agter at triumfere fra balkonen når de har slået hinanden ihjel."

Re: Logo rip-off

2005-10-13 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Måns Rullgård <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Henning Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Scripsit Amaya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Isn't the Debian swirl logo just a very basic Adobe Illustrator >>> template? >> The stroke is, but the

Re: Logo rip-off

2005-10-13 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Amaya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > /me wonders... > Isn't the Debian swirl logo just a very basic Adobe Illustrator > template? The stroke is, but the particular way it swirls is not. -- Henning Makholm "

Re: Logo rip-off

2005-10-13 Thread Henning Makholm
the same or similar kinds. (Varumärkeslag 1960:644, 6 §). This is not the case here. 3. That leaves the copyright to the swirl, regarded as a work of art. However, it appears to be unknown whether that copyright was transferred to the SPI or still resides with the ar

Re: MySQL only useable for GPL clients?

2005-10-11 Thread Henning Makholm
t does not speak abot a right to implement a protocol, nor does it purport to grant such a right subject to an conditions. >>Therefore if you use this description to write a program, you must >>release your program as GPL. That is at best a horrible misunderstanding, at worst an outrig

Re: Mozilla can't be GPL?

2005-10-10 Thread Henning Makholm
e can pick and choose among them as necessary for distributability and freedom. -- Henning Makholm "Vend dig ikke om! Det er et meget ubehageligt syn!" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linux Documentation Project License (LDPL) v2.0

2005-09-26 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit "Joe Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > "Henning Makholm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >>It's a reasonable interpretation. The problem is that there are >>_other_ reasonable interpretations as well; in particular one easily >&g

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