Re: Question about the Vovida licence

2001-01-26 Thread Samuel Hocevar
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001, Jérôme Marant wrote: > "4. Products derived from this software may not be called "VOCAL", nor > may "VOCAL" appear in their name, without prior written > permission." > > Is this compatible with the third clause of the DFSG ? It looks like a > restriction on the di

Re: OpenDivX license

2001-01-23 Thread Samuel Hocevar
liant but is still annoying. I have a doubt about how enforcable the file extension stuff is. They want credit for their code, but they don't want us to use their name. Sam. -- Samuel Hocevar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://sam.zoy.org/> for DVDs in Linux screw the MPAA and ; do dig $DVDs.z.zoy.org ; done | \ perl -ne 's/\.//g; print pack("H224",$1) if(/^x([^z]*)/)' | gunzip

Re: Integrity of Source Code

2000-11-29 Thread Samuel Hocevar
cense for their webserver: * 5. Products derived from this software may not be called "Apache" *nor may "Apache" appear in their names without prior written *permission of the Apache Group. You might find this solution acceptable, since it is DFSG compatible. Regards

Re: Irony of RSA Encryption

2000-09-16 Thread Samuel Hocevar
On Sat, Sep 16, 2000, Paul Serice wrote: > Samuel Hocevar wrote: Next time I'd be glad if you didn't send my *private* E-mails to a mailing list without asking me. I don't suppose debian-legal was set up for your personal rants/trolls, and I have no intention to take part to

Re: GPL question

2000-09-05 Thread Samuel Hocevar
id, just have a look at the very last sentence of section 2 of the GPL. Regards, Sam. -- Samuel Hocevar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.via.ecp.fr/~sam/ 1024D/29499F61 1999-04-221155 4B19 A50F 1136 6E60 A499 7CF3 F5AF 2949 9F61 dig goret.org @zoy.org axfr \ | perl -e 'for(sort(<>)){print pack("H32",$1) if(/^c..\.(\w+)/)}' | gzip -d

Re: Is this license DFSG-free?

2000-08-21 Thread Samuel Hocevar
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000, Andrew Stribblehill wrote: > I want to package something with this license. Is it acceptable to > go into main? I'm most concerned with the 2nd paragraph -- does it > pass DFSG 1? I don't think so. Also, this license does not explicitly allow modification and redistributi

About MPEG2 and DVDs

2000-07-14 Thread Samuel Hocevar
- the VideoLAN project [2] http://www.opendvd.org/ - about legal issues of DVD playback [3] http://www.linuxvideo.org/ - the Linux DVD effort -- Samuel Hocevar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.via.ecp.fr/~sam/ Do not try and fight the Cabal. That's impossible. Instead only try t

About MPEG2 and DVDs

2000-07-14 Thread Samuel Hocevar
olan.org/ - the VideoLAN project [2] http://www.opendvd.org/ - about legal issues of DVD playback [3] http://www.linuxvideo.org/ - the Linux DVD effort -- Samuel Hocevar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.via.ecp.fr/~sam/ Do not try and fight the Cabal. That's impossible. Instead only try t

Re: DFSG Par. 9 and GPL "Virulogical" effekt

2000-04-22 Thread Samuel Hocevar
On Sat, Apr 22, 2000, Florian Lohoff wrote: > The paragraph says "License Must NOT Contaminate Other Software". > As Debian and the FSF agree that the GPL and QPL are incompatible > and this is mainly the cause of the GPL which requires "the whole work" > distributed under "THIS license" this means

Re: PINE Clone

1999-12-22 Thread Samuel Hocevar
but it might be worth a look : http://www.fiction.net/blong/programs/mutt/#nntp Sam. -- Samuel Hocevar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.via.ecp.fr/~sam/ echo "what is the universe"|tr "a-z " 0-7-0-729|sed 's/9.//g;s/-/+/'|bc

Re: GPL source vs. binary

1999-11-18 Thread Samuel Hocevar
the Program, according to the GPL's section 0 (if I didn't miss anything there - IANAL). Thus I think it can only be licensed under the GPL, unless of course the author decides to release it under another license as well. Sam. -- Samuel Hocevar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.via

Re: NcFTP is free again?

1999-10-01 Thread Samuel Hocevar
ch programs to change the free libraries that are incorporated in them. See http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lgpl.html Regards, Sam. -- Samuel Hocevar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.via.ecp.fr/~sam/ echo "what is the universe"|tr "a-z " 0-7-0-729|sed 's/9.//g;s/-/+/'|bc

Re: the new IglooFTP license

1999-07-30 Thread Samuel Hocevar
On Thu, Jul 29, 1999, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 28-Jul-99, 07:57 (CDT), Samuel Hocevar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Meanwhile, he implemented Igor's patch for VMS to one of those > > two 0.6.1 versions. > > This is the most alarming section. Did the pat

the new IglooFTP license

1999-07-28 Thread Samuel Hocevar
Jean-Marc allowed to use those patches in the non-free version of IglooFTP ? Thanks a lot for your information, Sam. -- Samuel Hocevar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.via.ecp.fr/~sam/ echo "what is the universe"|tr "a-z " 0-7-0-729|sed 's/9.//g;s/-/+/'|bc