Re: Binary file inside fruit package

2022-06-26 Thread Tobias Frost
On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 04:22:19AM +, Stephan Verbücheln wrote: > Is it really an executabe binary, i.e. a computer program for any real > or virtual programming or machine language? > > I don't think that (non-executable) binary data is a problem. If the > data is produced/generated with some

Re: Bug#915541: Removal of upstream "--will-cite" functionality has been reverted

2021-09-03 Thread Tobias Frost
On Fri, Sep 03, 2021 at 08:44:49AM -0600, Sam Hartman wrote: > >>>>> "Tobias" == Tobias Frost writes: > > Tobias> as explained earlier: click-wraps are no-no's. > By this dxo you mean > > 1) clip wraps are incompatible with the DFSG? (I ag

Re: Bug#915541: Removal of upstream "--will-cite" functionality has been reverted

2021-08-30 Thread Tobias Frost
On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 07:22:52PM +0200, Ole Tange wrote: > To me it would feel similar to a dialog box, where you have to click > "Don't show this again" to continue the first time. This is not that > uncommon in graphical tools, so there is some precedence for this. as explained earlier: click-

Re: Bug#915541: Removal of upstream "--will-cite" functionality has been reverted

2021-08-30 Thread Tobias Frost
On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 07:22:52PM +0200, Ole Tange wrote: > On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 3:38 PM Andreas Tille wrote: > : > > I admit I also considered a wrapper but with a different functionality: > > Simply check whether --citation was used before and if not do so. > > If you mean a wrapper similar

Re: Acceptability of a documentation license for Debian

2021-08-30 Thread Tobias Frost
On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 02:43:34PM -0400, Jeffrey H. Johnson wrote: (IANAL, IANFTPM (I am not ftp master), etc.) I hope you can really find a way to use a standard license. License profiliration is really becoming harmful to FOSS. ENOTIME for a complete reply to your mail, but two remarks: (..

Re: Bug#915541: Removal of upstream "--will-cite" functionality has been reverted

2021-08-30 Thread Tobias Frost
Hi Andreas, On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 08:25:29AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > since this issue becomes complex I'd like to bring up it at debian-legal > list for advise. > > Kind regards > > Andreas. > (usual disclaimer: IANAL. This below is only are few cents and thought on the

Re: tomboy-ng package with non standard license.

2020-10-12 Thread Tobias Frost
On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 09:10:23AM +1000, David Bannon wrote: > I thank you for that Tobias, a positive move ! > > However, I don't believe it will help. I think TK is concerned about > conventional licenses allowing someone to remove his name from the > package, ship it as its own. Near as I can

Re: tomboy-ng package with non standard license.

2020-09-24 Thread Tobias Frost
Hi David, I just responded to the ticket in github: Let me briefly chime in… I was interacting on the debian-legal thread about this topic: @kryslt it would be very helpful if you could confirm that your interpreation of you license also expliclitly allows modification and distr

Re: tomboy-ng package with non standard license.

2020-09-20 Thread Tobias Frost
. > > Remaining hopeful. > > David > > > On 14/9/20 5:21 pm, Tobias Frost wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 11:49:10AM +1000, David Bannon wrote: > > > > Chiming in… > > > >> *** Daniel's Issues > >> > >>> Also, ba

Re: tomboy-ng package with non standard license.

2020-09-14 Thread Tobias Frost
On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 11:49:10AM +1000, David Bannon wrote: Chiming in… > *** Daniel's Issues > > > Also, based on Daniel Hakimi's mail, it sounds like the KControls > > author may have illegally changed the license, since there is no > > indication in the commit message that they got approval

Re: Maxmind GeoIP/Geolite license change

2020-06-16 Thread Tobias Frost
On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 09:28:05AM +0100, Michael Tremer wrote: (...) > I consider myself a great advocate for free software. Almost everything I do, > and certain all I can, is free software - available for anyone to use. Let me nitpick on that Free software also requires the ability to modify

Re: Classification of the APSL as non-DFSG-compliant

2020-04-20 Thread Tobias Frost
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 01:14:15PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 4/20/20 12:32 PM, Tobias Frost wrote: > >> Any commercial product using GPL-2 must share the source code publicly, the > >> same applies to the APSL-1.2. There is no difference. > > > &

Re: Classification of the APSL as non-DFSG-compliant

2020-04-20 Thread Tobias Frost
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 12:22:52PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 4/20/20 12:15 PM, Tobias Frost wrote: > >> It's pretty obvious from this clause that the requirement to provide the > >> sources > >> of your modifications for at le

Re: hfsprogs is not DFSG-Free

2020-04-20 Thread Tobias Frost
Discussion thread on d-legal: https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2020/04/msg1.html)

Re: Classification of the APSL as non-DFSG-compliant

2020-04-20 Thread Tobias Frost
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 11:13:48AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 4/20/20 11:04 AM, Mihai Moldovan wrote: > > * On 4/20/20 10:48 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > >>> For sure it fails the Dissident Test. > >> Does it? The part which requires the availability of the source change

Re: Classification of the APSL as non-DFSG-compliant

2020-04-20 Thread Tobias Frost
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 10:06:23AM +0200, Mihai Moldovan wrote: > * On 4/20/20 9:03 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > Secondly, for the APSL-1.2, it seems that the only clause that makes the > > license non-DFSG-compliant is this one: > > > > > (c) You must make Source Code of all Your De

Re: DFSG-compatibility of a overly short license [tensorflow dependency]

2018-08-18 Thread Tobias Frost
On Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 01:07:54PM +, Lumin wrote: > Hi debian-legal, > > The license for the last libtensorflow.so dependency is very confusing > because it looks quite incomplete, or exetremely overly simplified. > > > https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/master/third_party/fft2d/L

Re: DFSG-compatibility of X13-ARIMA-SEATS (U.S. federal govt. software)

2018-08-03 Thread Tobias Frost
On Fri, Aug 03, 2018 at 02:00:09PM +0200, Sébastien Villemot wrote: > Le vendredi 03 août 2018 à 20:50 +1000, Ben Finney a écrit : > > > Sébastien Villemot writes: > > > > However, the last clause of the licence says that the “user agrees to > > > make a good faith effort to use the Software in a

Re: drbdmanage EULA conforming to DFSG?

2016-12-09 Thread Tobias Frost
Am Freitag, den 09.12.2016, 14:08 +0100 schrieb Markus Frosch: > Hey legal people, > The DRBD upstream switched the license for one of their components > "drbdmanage" from GPL to a special license (non-standard). > > I'm thinking about it would fit DFSG. > > Disclaimer: The software in particular

Re: Is the RAR archiver freely distributable?

2016-11-10 Thread Tobias Frost
Am Dienstag, den 08.11.2016, 21:18 +0300 schrieb Dmitry Alexandrov: > > | 3d. Hacks/cracks, keys or key generators may not be included, > > | pointed to or referred to by the distributor of the trial version > > > > We (Debian) cannot possibly agree to such a condition.  It may well > be > > violat

Re: flask-sphinx-themes

2016-10-23 Thread Tobias Frost
Am Montag, den 24.10.2016, 06:07 +0200 schrieb Daniel Stender: > Hi, > > I was packaging privacyIDEA and came across this license text [1]: > > > We kindly ask you to only use these themes in an unmodified manner > just > for Flask and Flask-related products, not for unrelated projects.  If > yo

Re: would this custom license considered DFSG-free/GPL-compatible

2016-10-04 Thread Tobias Frost
Am Dienstag, den 04.10.2016, 22:43 +0200 schrieb Santiago Vila: > On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 09:45:31AM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, 04 Oct 2016, Paul Wise wrote: > > > > > > > > On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 8:56 PM, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > // 4. If

Re: Maintaining of CodeBlocks

2016-06-06 Thread Tobias Frost
> Hello Vincent, > > On Sat, 4 Jun 2016 22:29:22 -0700 > Vincent Cheng wrote: > > >> >> License: RDS-Data-Security >> >> License to copy and use this software is granted provided that >> >> it is identified as the "RSA Data Security, Inc. MD5 Message >> >> Digest Algorithm" in all material ment

License of Doom3-BFG

2014-10-06 Thread Tobias Frost
Dear d-legal team, I'm currently intend to package rbdoom3bfg from https://github.com/RobertBeckebans/RBDOOM-3-BFG and I'd like to have an second eye on the license conditions set up by id Software. I think they are both GPL-compatible and DFSG free, but as said I'd love to have an review. (The p