Re: "Legal Terms of Service" advice please

2001-01-24 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Rick Younie wrote: >You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Geocrawler.com, VA >Linux Systems, and all related services from any and all liability, >penalties, losses, damages, costs, expenses, attorneys' fees, causes >of action or claims caused by o

Re: AT&T source code agreement

2000-03-28 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 22-Mar-00, 18:08 (CST), Eric Sherrill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thus there could exist a pseudo-secret distro, given only to one's > > friends or sold to select customers, that the author never finds out > > about, simply through its obscurity

Re: From Corel on the EULA

1999-12-10 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On 4 Dec 1999, Amy Fong wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Zygo Blaxell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Corel has approximately 400 mailing lists subscribed to an internal > >news/mail gateway that I wrote (the NNTP server is 'sn' by Harold Sn, > >somewhere in Singapore IIRC, the SMTP se

Re: VMware in non-free

1999-11-30 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > On Sun, Nov 28, 1999 at 02:00:25PM +0200, Tommi Virtanen wrote: > > Please have a look at http://www.vmware.com/ and help me > > decide if we can distribute VMware in non-free, or only as an > > installer package. I currently think w

Re: license question

1999-10-05 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Joey Hess wrote: > Brian Ristuccia wrote: > > > 5. The documentation is completely and totally non-free > > Nod. Do you think removing the documentation from the package constitutes > modifying it, and would violate the license? Removing the documentation would violate this:

Re: Oracle 8i for Linux License Humor

1999-07-20 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Brian Ristuccia wrote: > I figured we could occasionally use a little laugh on this list, so have a > look at the following two URL's: > > http://technet.oracle.com/tech/linux/ - Oracle's download page. Check out > the license textarea -- you can put any license you want in t

Re: gif2png in non-free?

1999-07-15 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On 15 Jul 1999, Henning Makholm wrote: > Remco Blaakmeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I think that "permission to (...) for any purpose and without fee is > > hereby granted" is very different from "permission to (...) is hereby > > grante

Re: gif2png in non-free?

1999-07-14 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Brian Ristuccia wrote: > The license for gif2png looks pretty free to me. According to the Free > Software Foundation, programs that decompress gif files are non governed by > the IBM and UNISYS patyents. Are there other issues with gif2png that I'm > overlooking? > > http://

Re: ITP: xengine

1999-06-02 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: > I can understand what you say. > > - But as you can see, the copyright only shows the fundamental and > rough intention of the author. It does not show strict conditions > on every situations like GPL. The programmer is not lawyer in general. It d

Re: ITP: xengine

1999-06-01 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On 31 May 1999, Ben Pfaff wrote: > Remco Blaakmeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >On Mon, 31 May 1999, Kenshi Muto wrote: > >> License: == from README == >> >> Author: Kazuhiko Shutoh >> >> Permission to

Re: ITP: xengine

1999-05-31 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Mon, 31 May 1999, Kenshi Muto wrote: > License: == from README == > > Author: Kazuhiko Shutoh > > Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute without charge this > software, documentation, images, etc. is granted, provided that this > comment and the author

Re: UW gave permission for PINE

1999-03-03 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On 3 Mar 1999, John Hasler wrote: > Santiago Vila writes: > > But this is not all, the UW does not want "modified binaries" to be > > distributed, and as a result of this, no binary .deb packages may be > > distributed by FTP. > > Unless permission has been granted by UW. Paul has that permissio