Re: Bug#915541: Removal of upstream "--will-cite" functionality has been reverted

2021-09-13 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 11/09/21 at 21:47 +0200, Ole Tange wrote: > On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 11:06 AM Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > : > > (1) the wording almost requires citation > > I take this as you agree that it does not require citation. [...] > > With a wrong eye, one could even see i

Re: Bug#915541: Removal of upstream "--will-cite" functionality has been reverted

2021-09-07 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 03/09/21 at 08:04 -0700, Felix Lechner wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Sep 3, 2021 at 7:50 AM Tobias Frost wrote: > > > > But as said earlier: This is not a license issue; the license of GNU > > parallel > > would allow removal, but this would make upstream sad. > > The status quo is likely to mke o

Re: Bug#915541: Removal of upstream "--will-cite" functionality has been reverted

2021-09-07 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 06/09/21 at 20:56 +0200, Ole Tange wrote: > On Fri, Sep 3, 2021 at 5:05 PM Felix Lechner > wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 3, 2021 at 7:50 AM Tobias Frost wrote: > > > > > > But as said earlier: This is not a license issue; the license of GNU > > > parallel > > > would allow removal, but this would m

Re: debian status on using the PHP license for pear/pecl extensions

2015-11-27 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, When I was the DPL, I forwarded Ian's set of questions to SFLC. I did not receive any feedback before the end of my term, but this question was part of the things I forwarded to Neil when he took over. I'm Ccing leader@, maybe he can comment about the status of this. - Lucas signature.asc D

Re: PHP licence SFLC questions draft v4

2014-12-04 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi FTP masters, Now that the archive is frozen, could you please take some time to review this discussion? Thanks, Lucas On 09/10/14 at 13:46 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Hi, > > On 08/10/14 at 12:17 +0200, Mateusz Jończyk wrote: > > W dniu 21.08.2014 o 20:08, Lucas

Re: PHP licence SFLC questions draft v4

2014-10-09 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, On 08/10/14 at 12:17 +0200, Mateusz Jończyk wrote: > W dniu 21.08.2014 o 20:08, Lucas Nussbaum pisze: > > Hi, > > > > First, thanks a lot to Ian for working on this draft, which (I think) > > provides a nice summary of the situation around the PHP license. &g

Re: PHP licence SFLC questions draft v4

2014-08-21 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, First, thanks a lot to Ian for working on this draft, which (I think) provides a nice summary of the situation around the PHP license. On 21/08/14 at 19:49 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Ian Jackson (2014-08-21): > > Draft question for SFLC: > > (there are no changes since v3 apart from fix

Re: [PHP-QA] Debian and the PHP license

2014-07-30 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi Ian, Thanks for bringing this up. On 30/07/14 at 13:09 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > There has been an ongoing and wholly unproductive conversation on > -legal about some difficulties with the PHP licence. > > Would it be possible for us to obtain some proper legal advice ? > Do we have a relat

Re: Unteralterbach visual novel (was: Re: Introduction)

2014-03-10 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi there, On 10/03/14 at 14:57 +0100, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > >> Having read your report, even if someone decided to package it, I > >> wouldn't advise to include it in the archive without speaking > >> beforehand with lawyers that could advice us on the possible risks. > >> I'm not familiar enought

Re: Introduction

2014-03-04 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 03/03/14 at 19:24 +0100, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > Hi, > > This was quite predictable to happen sometime. Games are a lot about > telling stories, and stories can come in very different flavours. As > we are planning to maybe getting a game into Debian, that has explicit > erotic or sexual contents

Re: IEEE on oui.txt and iab.txt

2013-08-16 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 16/08/13 at 10:08 +0200, Paul Wise wrote: > Last time this came up, several folks suggested that these files are > not copyrightable. I happen to agree (IANAL). Perhaps we should employ > our SFLC lawyers to find this out with more certainty. You might want > to contact them, the DPL can help th

license check: ruby 1.9.3

2011-05-15 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
(Please keep debian-ruby@ Cced) Hi, In the upcoming Ruby release, there will be a license change from GPLv2||Ruby to BSD||Ruby. Since the situation is rather complex, and involves linking with both readline and openssl, I'd like to check that our interpretation is correct. 1. Relevant copyright

Re: Unclear license situation in ruby1.8 (GPL, SSL, Ruby license)

2010-03-19 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 19/03/10 at 20:59 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > We will do our best to get an exception before the release. Erm. See http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/2982 for the upstream bug. An upstream developer replied saying: > When you want to link openssl, you use Ruby's. > Wh

Re: Unclear license situation in ruby1.8 (GPL, SSL, Ruby license)

2010-03-19 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Can we distribute a ruby application that "require" (that's the ruby > >keyword for loading libraries) both readline and openssl? > > I think we can do this, too. TTBOMK ruby code is interpreted at > runtime, isn't it? So with such an application, we again don

Unclear license situation in ruby1.8 (GPL, SSL, Ruby license)

2010-03-18 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
ns: 1/ Can we ship those files? 2/ Can we ship those files in the same binary package? 3/ Can we distribute a ruby application that "require" (that's the ruby keyword for loading libraries) both readline and openssl? Thanks, -- | Lucas Nussbaum | lu...@lucas-nussbaum.net http

Re: DEP licenses

2008-05-29 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
lt" license for DEPs in DEP0. The subthread on -project starts with http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2008/05/msg00066.html The basic requirements are: (AFAIK) - not copylefted, so we can include the document in another document - suitable for documents - require changing title/author

Re: CeCILL license : Free Software License for french research

2004-07-07 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
The current version ? The current version or any later ? This could cause problems when integrating CeCILLed software into GPLed apps. What do you think of this ? -- | Lucas Nussbaum | [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | | jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net | | fingerprint: 075D 010B 80C3 AC68 BD4F B328 DA19 6237 023B 3F4F |

Re: CeCILL license : Free Software License for french research

2004-07-06 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 11:24:29PM +0200, Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Lucas Nussbaum: > > > IANAL, but the license[4] look quite ok for me, even if the part about > > GPL compatibility seems a bit unclear. > > It looks like a fallback close simi

CeCILL license : Free Software License for french research

2004-07-06 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
w.inria.fr/valorisation/logiciels/Licence.CeCILL-V1.pdf [5] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/fsfe-france/2004-07/index.html -- | Lucas Nussbaum | [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | | jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net | | fingerprint: 075D 010B 80C3

Re: Legality of .DEBS in Medialinux.

2003-11-11 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 05:36:33PM +, Marco Ghirlanda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >Knoppix should be distributing the source from the same location that > >you would get the CD, so its still compliant with the GPL. > > > > > Really I couldn't find the sources of Knoppix anywhere. ht

Summary of the GFDL debate

2003-06-05 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
the time, and I think I'm not the only one :( Has anyone written such a summary ? Thanks -- Lucas Nussbaum