Re: licensed under GPL-2 but need to accept license dialog

2015-11-07 Thread Mark Weyer
pristine GPL then you as a maintainer have the right to remove the click-wrap functionality. Usability-wise this would be an improvement, I think. Hence the question about the original dfsg-status does not seem to matter much. IANAL, TINLA. Best regards, Mark Weyer

Re: Simple doubt about section to use

2014-09-16 Thread Mark Weyer
wise check the thing emulated. - Any web browser which does not decline to show non-DSFG-free content. Disclaimer: I am not a member of the Debian project. Best regards, Mark Weyer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsu

Re: filebench: bison generated parser + CDDL

2012-06-02 Thread Mark Weyer
On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 01:45:06PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Montag, 7. Mai 2012 schrieb Mark Weyer: > > Just a quick note: If you are right about the incompatibility of CDDL-1 > > and GPLv3 (others on this list will know if you are), then the > > combined work is

Re: filebench: bison generated parser + CDDL

2012-05-07 Thread Mark Weyer
lity of CDDL-1 and GPLv3 (others on this list will know if you are), then the combined work is non-free: Its license terms discriminate against a field of endeavour, namely developing a parser generator. I am not a lawyer. Hope this helps, Mark Weyer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debia

Re: No source code for wesnoth-musicg

2012-04-23 Thread Mark Weyer
tions I see that one might want to make to the music: - Replace an instrument by something more suitable for a specific epoch. - Bugfix a single note in the score. - Remix the entire track. All of these are possible with what the artist has. None is possible with the OGG file they provide.

Re: No source code for wesnoth-music

2012-04-15 Thread Mark Weyer
ong all existing forms). (I always fear that mentioning that consensus might lead people reluctant to reveal their true sources to "accidentally" delete them.) Hope this helps. I am not a lawyer. I am not a Debian anything. Best regards, Mark Weyer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-l

Re: Using freetranslation.mobi to translate .po files

2012-03-26 Thread Mark Weyer
copyrighted by yourself, or dual licensed, or ...). I am not a lawyer. This is not law advice. Best regards, Mark Weyer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120326201539.GA1848@debian

Re: Name restriction and forced acknowledgement OK?

2012-02-13 Thread Mark Weyer
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 12:23:45PM +0100, Olе Streicher wrote: > Mark Weyer writes: > > On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 10:19:04AM +0100, Ole Streicher wrote: > >> c. The name(s) of all routine(s) in your derived work shall not > >> include the prefix "iau&q

Re: Name restriction and forced acknowledgement OK?

2012-02-13 Thread Mark Weyer
as non-free, but right now I cannot find it in the DFSG either. Just my two cents. I am not a Debian anything (DD,DM,NM,whatever). Hope that helps, Mark Weyer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120213103836.GA1853@debian

Re: a Free Platform License?

2011-11-30 Thread Mark Weyer
stricts use by design. The above is not intended to convey my opinion on the AGPL, just to prove that it does in fact restrict use. Best regards, Mark Weyer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@

Re: Lost sources [was: Re: scientific paper in package only in postscript form non-free?]

2011-03-20 Thread Mark Weyer
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 03:47:39PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Fri, 18 Mar 2011, Mark Weyer wrote: > > Just to make sure there is no misunderstanding, let me rephrase my > > scenario: Someone modifies a GPLed work, say a program written in C. > > Between compiling

Re: Lost sources [was: Re: scientific paper in package only in postscript form non-free?]

2011-03-18 Thread Mark Weyer
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 01:25:57PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Wed, 16 Mar 2011, Mark Weyer wrote: > > I always thought that such distribution would be in breach of the > > GPL, or more generally of copyleft. After all, it is impossible to > > distinguish, from the outs

Lost sources [was: Re: scientific paper in package only in postscript form non-free?]

2011-03-16 Thread Mark Weyer
from the outside, between lost and secret sources. And if the I-want-my-sources-secret person does not care about later modifications, he might even really delete the sources. It should not be that easy to weasel out of copyleft. Best regards, Mark Weyer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-l

Re: scientific paper in package only in postscript form non-free?

2011-03-14 Thread Mark Weyer
ly already has created a file of that format by typing its hex dump [0]. Anyway, the above seem to be definitions of source code in general, not source code of a specific file. Best regards, Mark Weyer [0] I, for example, regularly use text editors for creating xpm pictures. -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Problem with Squeeze Artwork

2010-11-14 Thread Mark Weyer
dy addresses the RC bug in time for the release. And I agree. Best regards, Mark Weyer. IANAL, IANADD -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101114170722.ga3...@debian

Re: legal questions regarding machine learning models

2009-05-29 Thread Mark Weyer
t; counterparts) in order to declare something DFSG-free. > Why is a different standard being applied here? Am I missing something? I would think that even if in all jurisdictions the font is non-copyrightable, that still would not imply DFSG-freeness, only that it is fit for non-free. Best re

Re: legal questions regarding machine learning models

2009-05-27 Thread Mark Weyer
make the view invalid. This has to be judged on a case-by-case basis. Best regards, Mark Weyer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: legal questions regarding machine learning models

2009-05-27 Thread Mark Weyer
> > I agree with you. In particular, in many cases a single 3D model is used > > to create many 2D images. If you don't have the model, you need to do > > the modification many times. > > And then there is the case of increasing the resolution... > I don't know if it would be technically possible

Re: legal questions regarding machine learning models

2009-05-27 Thread Mark Weyer
Debian package would be in contrib at best (and that only, if HTK can be shipped in non-free), because the package would have a build-dependency on HTK. I guess, in the long run your community needs a free replacement of HTK. Again, this is only how I understand things. Best regards, Mark W

Re: legal questions regarding machine learning models

2009-05-27 Thread Mark Weyer
. In particular, in many cases a single 3D model is used to create many 2D images. If you don't have the model, you need to do the modification many times. And then there is the case of increasing the resolution... > Disclaimers, of course: IANADD, TINASOTODP (and IANAL, TINLA). S

Re: Which license am I looking for?

2009-04-05 Thread Mark Weyer
d to license proliferation (which is the current plan but I am not very active on it). Best regards, Mark Weyer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: licensing for libpam-pwfile (ITP)

2009-02-01 Thread Mark Weyer
> * Let me know you're using it I think this makes it non-free. It fails the desert island and the dissident test. It also fails DFSG 3, as soon as the upstream author has died. SDAFP (same disclaimers as Francesco Poli) Best regards, Mark Weyer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: Which license am I looking for?

2009-01-19 Thread Mark Weyer
INLA: This is not law advice IANADD: I am not a Debian Developer TINASOTODP: This is not a (something) of the official Debian project I might be wrong, though. Best regards, Mark Weyer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Which license am I looking for?

2009-01-18 Thread Mark Weyer
Thanks for your reply. On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 05:43:05PM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: > On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 15:58:06 +0100 Mark Weyer wrote: > > [...] > > On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 01:49:35PM +0100, Mark Weyer wrote: > > > - Copyleft with source requirement, but shou

Re: Which license am I looking for?

2009-01-18 Thread Mark Weyer
Sorry if this breaks threading. Subscription was not as quick as I thought. On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 01:49:35PM +0100, Mark Weyer wrote: > - Copyleft with source requirement, but should not contaminate other > software. > - No additional burden on anyone. In particular no require

Which license am I looking for?

2009-01-18 Thread Mark Weyer
Debian. If there is a better place to get an answer, please tell me. Best regards, Mark Weyer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org