Re: License check for a new(ly modified) license..

2011-09-26 Thread Sam Hocevar
wledge the original license text's > > > copyright holder with an appropriate copyright notice (Copyright (C) > > > 2004 Sam Hocevar ). > > > > Really? My reading of WTFPL is that you have to precisely remove Sam's > > name and put the name of who is licens

Re: About Logo License

2007-12-11 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Mon, Dec 10, 2007, Steve Langasek wrote: > > To put it another way: whatever one thinks of the Debian logo policy, > > it seems harsh on OP to make him comply with a stricter interpretation > > of the DFSG than the Debian project currently applies to its own logo. > > The whole reason the lice

Re: About Logo License

2007-12-10 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Mon, Dec 10, 2007, Francesco Poli wrote: > I am Cc:ing the DPL, because I would love to hear whether there is any > progress on the Debian Logo licensing issue. > I am not aware of any recent development on this front: what's the > current plan? > Sam, this debian-legal thread starts here: > ht

Re: (C) vs ©

2007-05-22 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Tue, May 22, 2007, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > >It's possibly not a valid copyright indicator. The © symbol is > >unambiguous under the law, and thus preferred. > > "unambiguous under the law", but technical ambiguous. What character > encoding should be used? > > IMHO "(c)" is the characte

discussion with the FSF: GPLv3, GFDL, Nexenta

2007-05-22 Thread Sam Hocevar
[Cc:ing -legal, but please try to follow-up on only one list] I am having a chat tonight with people from the FSF. Despite the inevitable disagreements between Debian and the FSF, I am willing to cooperate in a constructive manner on as many topic as possible. Here are the topics we'll be di

Re: Bug#248782: abuse-sfx: violation of license terms

2004-05-13 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Thu, May 13, 2004, Andrew Saunders wrote: > Apparently they're the property of one Bobby Prince, who can be > reached via http://www.bpmusic.com. Perhaps you could persuade him to > release them under DFSG-Free terms? Uhm, right. I'll try that. -- Sam.

Re: Bug#248782: abuse-sfx: violation of license terms

2004-05-13 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Thu, May 13, 2004, Niklas Vainio wrote: > abuse-sfx has been orphaned so there is no maintainer to do that. So I will > do it. I am adopting the Abuse packages, but I first wqnt to get rid of abuse-sfx by providing DFSG-free replacements for all sounds. I currently have replacements for the

Re: Fwd: [Politech] California DeCSS case eventually, finally, over [ip]

2004-02-06 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Fri, Feb 06, 2004, Andrew Suffield wrote: > Note that we're not really interested in decss, and libdvdcss is the > important one, so however this plays out it needs to result in a > decision that means libdvdcss is okay too (getting off on a > technicality is no good). > > I'm not sure that th

Adding copyright holders to an MIT-like license

2003-11-06 Thread Sam Hocevar
49:25Z sam $ Copyright 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, Oliver Laumann, Berlin (except for the contents of the directory `doc/usenix'). Copyright 2002, 2003 Sam Hocevar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paris This software was derived from Elk 1.2, which was Copyright 1987, 1988, 1989, Nixdorf C

Re: MPlayer DFSG compatibility status

2003-10-07 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003, Glenn Maynard wrote: > Of course, I don't know the details of any related patents (and don't > wish to); I'm only going from what I've heard: TMPGEnc had MPEG-2 issues, > MP3 encoding issues are well-known, and VirtualDub had ASF issues. > (These are all issues of patents tha

Re: License requirements for DSP binaries?

2003-09-22 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003, Josselin Mouette wrote: > If the binaries were entirely written using assembly code, the binary > here equates the source. This is very rarely true. Even assembly code has variable and function names, comments and macros. A disassembler output is certainly not the preferr

Re: SURVEY: Is the GNU FDL a DFSG-free license?

2003-08-22 Thread Sam Hocevar
> === CUT HERE === > > Part 1. DFSG-freeness of the GNU Free Documentation License 1.2 > > Please mark with an "X" the item that most closely approximates your > opinion. Mark only one. > > [ X ] The GNU Free Documentation License, version 1.2, as published > by the Free Softwar

Re: libdvdcss

2003-08-12 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003, Robert Millan wrote: > Ok. What are the necessary steps to request that we hire a lawyer to > resolve this? Can I do it on my own or is SPI the entity who should take > action here? I don't know about those steps, but I have some additional information about libdvdcss. As

Re: Advice on Drip (ITP #156287)

2003-07-29 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003, Robert Millan wrote: > >Uh? I suggest you have a more precise look at the Drip source code > > and see how exactly it uses libdvdcss. My understanding is that it does > > not at all: it only uses libdvdread. > > No, autoconf checks for libdvdcss and if found Drip is linke

Re: Advice on Drip (ITP #156287)

2003-07-29 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003, Robert Millan wrote: > It is important to note that libdvdcss is _NOT_ part of Drip. There are > unofficial libdvdcss packages around, and I added them to Build-Conflicts > to ensure Drip is not accidentaly linked against it. Uh? I suggest you have a more precise look at