Re: NEdit Text Editor License for Review

1999-06-15 Thread James Mastros
On Wed, Jun 16, 1999 at 12:17:45AM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: > James Mastros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 04:22:48PM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: > > > Mark Edel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > The User shall

Re: NEdit Text Editor License for Review

1999-06-15 Thread James Mastros
can sue anybody for anything. Then again, in this case it seems clear to me that they wouldn't have a snowballs chance in of winning. Then again, this is the United States. (But note that the packager should separately inemnify himself -- unlike the GPL, this does NOT form a waver of warranty

Re: Possible GPL violation?

1999-06-14 Thread James Mastros
On Mon, Jun 14, 1999 at 02:44:53PM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > On Mon, Jun 14, 1999 at 07:32:40AM -0400, James Mastros wrote: > > Hey all... > > As I was looking for somthing completly different, I noticed somthing > > interesting -- a commercial RCS clie

Possible GPL violation?

1999-06-14 Thread James Mastros
's at http://www.componentsoftware.com/ple. -=- James Mastros -- First they came for the fourth amendment, but I said nothing because I wasn't a drug dealer. Then they came for the sixth amendment, but I kept quiet because I wasn't guilty. Finally they came for the first amend

Re: GPL: what does redistribution mean?

1999-06-13 Thread James Mastros
ied GPL? "This program is licensed under the GPL with the exception that section three also applies to any scientific paper based on data obtained from the Program (or a work based on it under section 2)." Would this do what you want it to? On a tangental note, does section 3b really speci

Re: Forking and relicensing issues (different)

1999-05-12 Thread James Mastros
s data irregardless of the fact that it is in the form of .o files tacked on to the end (assumption, don't know anything about Be's architecture) because it dosn't call any functions within the kernel; it just does a blind JMP to the beginning of the kernel. IIRC, -=-

Re: Forking and relicensing issues (different)

1999-05-11 Thread James Mastros
e BeOS bootloader, which is baised on the Linux bootloader, has been a controversy before; for the resolution (IE last thing I heard about it), see http://slashdot.org/articles/9804060848213.shtml. It certianly seems to me that this isn't GPL complient. -=- James Mastros --