Re: W3C Excerpt and Citation license

2009-03-09 Thread Henri Sivonen
: Before the license draft: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009Feb/thread.html#msg52 http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009Feb/0388.html After the license draft: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009Mar/thread.html#msg101 -- Henri Sivonen hsivo...@iki.fi

Re: Why TPM+Parallel Distribution is non-free

2006-10-16 Thread Henri Sivonen
lict with the anti-TPM clause, because preventing access altogether is allowed (there's no recipient if nothing is received). -- Henri Sivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hsivonen.iki.fi/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CC's responses to v3draft comments

2006-10-07 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Oct 1, 2006, at 21:51, MJ Ray wrote: Henri Sivonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Sep 27, 2006, at 18:14, MJ Ray wrote: [...] as long as a mutable copy is available to developers and end users, because it widens the audience who will see free software and may become interested in its devel

Re: CC's responses to v3draft comments

2006-09-29 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Sep 28, 2006, at 12:54, KWWU wrote: Since MP3/OGG files are still modifiable, so it can be considered a source. Modifiability does not make something source. Source code is the *preferred* form for making modifications. -- Henri Sivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hsivonen.iki.fi/ -- To

Re: CC's responses to v3draft comments

2006-09-29 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Sep 27, 2006, at 18:14, MJ Ray wrote: Henri Sivonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: But is it good for Free Software to be ported to platforms that have been designed to deprive both developers and end users of freedom? Yes, as long as a mutable copy is available to developers and end

Re: [Fwd: Re: Problem with license of msv-xsdlib]

2006-09-28 Thread Henri Sivonen
facility acknowledgement. Is there a particular reason why Sun isn't licensing the msv extensions under the same license? -- Henri Sivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hsivonen.iki.fi/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CC's responses to v3draft comments

2006-09-27 Thread Henri Sivonen
redistribution without violating any law that protects TPM. I think that it makes sense for CC licenses to have anti-TPM language and I don't think that anti-TPM language should make a license non-free. (More on this: http://hsivonen.iki.fi/free-anti-drm/ ) -- Henri Sivonen [EMAIL PRO

Re: Bug#203211: Software patents and Debian

2006-08-18 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Aug 17, 2006, at 16:44, Michelle Konzack wrote: Patents on decoding something can not be enforced. How so? (Note that the unenforceability of the Welch patent against LZW decompression was due to the way the claims were drafted--not due to a general rule.) -- Henri Sivonen [EMAIL

Re: Copyright grants for fonts?

2006-06-27 Thread Henri Sivonen
all, then they are free as in speech at least in the United States. [1] http://ssifonts.com/myths2.HTM [2] http://store.adobe.com/type/topics/licenseqa.html#q5 -- Henri Sivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hsivonen.iki.fi/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

Freeness of anti-DRM (was: Re: Against DRM 2.0)

2006-05-20 Thread Henri Sivonen
clauses: http://hsivonen.iki.fi/free-anti-drm/ -- Henri Sivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hsivonen.iki.fi/ -- 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?

2006-03-05 Thread Henri Sivonen
ought such embedding is subject to license but foundries generally grant the permission to embed in final-form formats like PDF.) -- Henri Sivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hsivonen.iki.fi/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: fresh review of: CDDL

2005-09-09 Thread Henri Sivonen
asing comes verbatim from MPL 1.1. MPL 1.1 is DFSG-free, right? -- Henri Sivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hsivonen.iki.fi/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Font licencing

2005-08-14 Thread Henri Sivonen
permissive.) -- Henri Sivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hsivonen.iki.fi/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: quake2 and german youth protection law

2005-06-27 Thread Henri Sivonen
inspected and shown otherwise. IANAL, INADD, TINLA, but I doubt a game engine without data files constitutes an interactive image program. -- Henri Sivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hsivonen.iki.fi/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: Concerns about works created by the US government

2005-04-08 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Apr 8, 2005, at 05:00, Henning Makholm wrote: Hm, do we have anything in Debian with a "this is U.S. government work, so copyright does not apply to it" license status? IIRC, the "Hershey fonts" with Ghostscript. -- Henri Sivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hsivonen.iki.f

Re: Draft summary of Creative Commons 2.0 licenses (version 3)

2005-03-20 Thread Henri Sivonen
hts given by the license, unless you also simultaneously provide a copy without such measures. There is no politically correct way of defining "supported jurisdictions", but it should include the jurisdictions with iCommons licenses and should probably not include North Korea. -

Re: Binaries and MIT/expat license interpretative tradition

2005-03-19 Thread Henri Sivonen
uirement to put a copyright notice in a directory somewhere can be hard to sell. -- Henri Sivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hsivonen.iki.fi/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Draft summary of Creative Commons 2.0 licenses (version 3)

2005-03-19 Thread Henri Sivonen
because they have decided that the "legalcode" Web pages are immutable. -- Henri Sivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hsivonen.iki.fi/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linux and GPLv2

2005-03-14 Thread Henri Sivonen
with access to the files of the POV-Ray package. -- Henri Sivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hsivonen.iki.fi/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Binaries and MIT/expat license interpretative tradition

2005-03-14 Thread Henri Sivonen
itten MIT/expat-licensed code thinking that I am not placing an obnoxious notice burden on binaries. Now I have to explain that I am not, and I can't just waive the notice requirement in cases where I am not the sole copyright holder. Should I switch to the zlib license for code that I can