Re: [cl-debian] cl-rfc2109: requesting comments

2007-11-27 Thread Pierre THIERRY
Scribit Luca Capello dies 25/11/2007 hora 19:33: > Back in October 2006, Pierre Thierry asked if these parts could be > allowed even if not-free [4], but no one answered him. Since I'm not > a license nor an RFC expert, here I am :-) Now that I think of it, quoting a copyrighted ma

Re: OGRE contributor license agreement

2007-07-11 Thread Pierre THIERRY
Scribit Andres Mejia dies 11/07/2007 hora 12:43: > It's required that this license agreement be filled out and submitted > by anyone submitting patches upstream. That's like with the FSF, I suppose. Nothing forces you to submit them anything, so that is orthogonal to freeness of the code. Quickly

Re: Bug#431109: [PROPOSAL] Disambiguate of Section 12.5, Deprecate GPL/LGPL symlinks

2007-07-02 Thread Pierre THIERRY
Scribit Anthony W. Youngman dies 02/07/2007 hora 21:37: > > But do we really want to license everything which is "GPL version 2 > > or later" under the GPL version 3? > Actually, YOU CAN'T. > > The only person who can CHANGE the licence is the person who owns the > copyright. Actually, the text s

Is the Apache Software License DFSG-compliant?

2003-08-07 Thread Pierre THIERRY
I just looked at the license for some Apache software, like Xalan, Xerces of FOP. I noticed that it forbids the use of their name in derived work without written permission. IIUC, it is absolutely not DFSG-compliant, is it? It means that Debian must have written permission to redistribute the pac