Re: Privacy and defamation of character on Debian public forums

2021-09-24 Thread Tom Dial
t the US Constitution's first amendment and the rather extensive derived jurisprudence protects a lot of opinionated and arguably rude statements that some might consider defamatory and that in some countries may be legally actionable as such. It is much better, and almost always much more productive, to avoid personal attacks and maintain polite demeanor in discussions. Regards, Tom Dial > Thoughts?

Re: [Fedora-legal-list] Re: The license of OpenMotif (Open Group Public License)

2018-10-26 Thread Tom Callaway
tream of us), we would not consider it acceptable either. ~tom

Fwd: SPIN license -- now BSD 3-Clause!

2016-01-01 Thread Tom Lee
f the software by Lucent & has licensed spin 6.4.5 under 3-clause BSD [2]. Are there any additional legal hurdles to clear here before somebody could move forward RE: packaging up spin for debian? Cheers, Tom [1] "Bug#296369: ITP: spin -- Powerfull model checking and softwareverificatio

Re: OpenCASCADE re-licensing: a (desperate) call for help

2012-06-28 Thread Tom M
I wonder what it would take to just buy the company and turn it GPLv2 It would make one heck of a kickstarter. On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 8:16 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > Francesco Poli writes: > > > I am personally trying hard to persuade Open CASCADE S.A.S. (the > > company behind Open CASCADE Techno

Re: NetBeans ITP [was Re: CDDL]

2006-12-05 Thread Tom Marble
cc on this mail, but I feel Sun > people are loudly claiming to be easy to talk to, yet aren't really. Simon's blog entry is from a while ago, so yes the comments are closed. But you can comment here, send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and/or get me on IRC (tmarble on OFTC #debian-java

Re: NetBeans ITP [was Re: CDDL]

2006-12-02 Thread Tom Marble
ull JVM is available under GPL then running applications on top of it *are* compatible with any license as this was the specific rationale for adding the Classpath exception [1]. Thanks, --Tom [1] http://www.sun.com/software/opensource/java/faq.jsp#g6 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

NetBeans ITP [was Re: CDDL]

2006-12-02 Thread Tom Marble
CDDL has been discussed many, many times on d-l in the past. In light of Sun's commitment to Free Software and our desire to make this software available to Debian Developers and users it is apropos to work towards consensus on the DFSG status of CDDL. I welcome your comments and concerns.

Sun clarifies intent of the DLJ

2006-06-05 Thread Tom Marble
re-written to clarify the relationship between the FAQ and the license itself. For further questions regarding intent please followup here or in the jdk-distros Forum [3]. Regards, --Tom [1] debian-legal http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/05/threads.htm [2] jpackage-discuss https

Re: [OT] Re: Sun responds to questions on the DLJ

2006-05-21 Thread Tom Marble
Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le vendredi 19 mai 2006 à 23:42 -0500, Tom Marble a écrit : >> It was really great to be there... I enjoyed meeting you and many >> other Debian Developers. Perhaps the biggest thing for me to grok >> was that Debian isn't as much a &qu

Re: Sun responds to questions on the DLJ

2006-05-20 Thread Tom Marble
Josh Triplett wrote: > Tom Marble wrote: >> Don Armstrong wrote: >>> On Fri, 19 May 2006, Tom Marble wrote: >>>> + SECTION 2(c) >>>> >>>> There have been a series of speculations about this, despite the >>>> clarifications of F

Re: Sun responds to questions on the DLJ

2006-05-19 Thread Tom Marble
Don Armstrong wrote: > On Fri, 19 May 2006, Tom Marble wrote: > Thanks for comming to Debconf; the discussions were interesting even > if there were disagreements at times. It was really great to be there... I enjoyed meeting you and many other Debian Developers. Perhaps the biggest thi

Sun responds to questions on the DLJ

2006-05-19 Thread Tom Marble
that internally so that soon you will be able consider Java for "main". Respectfully, --Tom [1] DLJ http://download.java.net/dlj/DLJ-v1.1.txt [2] DLJ-FAQ http://download.java.net/dlj/DLJ-FAQ-v1.1.txt signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

RE: MP3 decoder packaged with XMMS

2005-07-15 Thread Tom Rosedale
There is no cost to Xiph for copying me on these. Jack and Monty are well aware of the legal environment in which they are operating. Please do not feel that it is necessary to remove me from this. Tom Thomas B. Rosedale Browne Rosedale & Lanouette LLP 31 St. James Avenue, Suite 850 Boston

Re: GPL License question

2004-12-07 Thread Tom deL
Josh, thank you for taking the time to point me to some great reading! -Tom Josh Triplett wrote: Tom deL wrote: A product has piqued my interest and claims to be GPL but the disclaimers and general tone of their license "explanation" gives me pause. Any opinions of how truly &q

GPL License question

2004-12-07 Thread Tom deL
m I reading this the wrong way? Thanks in advance, -Tom

Re: most liberal license

2004-09-18 Thread tom
;couse is a way to impose other rules and cultural concept to foregins, and probabily it is dfsg non free, but for the purpose you talk, maybe you find it useful. IMHO,IANAL Tom --- Josh Triplett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Harald Geyer wrote: >Joachim Breitner wrote: >>Harald

Re: Debian and Mozilla Trademarks

2004-09-09 Thread tom
just one license) is probably not dfsg free becouse of what requires in dealing with logos and trademarks [1] [0] http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/licensing.html [1] http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/licensing.html on the middle of the page Tom --- "Paul C. Bryan" <[EM

Re: Desert Island Test [Re: DRAFT: debian-legal summary of the QPL]

2004-07-13 Thread tom
O Martes, 13 de Xullo de 2004 ás 00:56:39 -0700, Sean Kellogg > back to B due to lack of communication facilities. The duty in > will be discharged by the court under section 261 provided section <263 is <> <> 95% of the world population does not live in the US. < Aconsegueix [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: CC-based proposal (was FDL: no news?)

2004-07-06 Thread tom
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Re: Copyright on 'non-creative' data?

2004-07-04 Thread tom
<--- Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: However, on the <> same site, they have several zip files that are basically rom produced by running the program on directories full of ROMs, allowing match ROM images by their checksums. I'd like to package those ucon64, but they lack true lic

Re: Contracts and licenses

2004-06-30 Thread tom
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MasterMind(r)

2001-02-19 Thread Tom Cato Amundsen
ssian board game. One of his translators will give me more info. -- Tom Cato Amundsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GNU Solfege - free eartraining, http://www.gnu.org/software/solfege/

python 2.0 license

2000-10-20 Thread Tom Cato Amundsen
I cannot see much discussion about the python 2.0 license here, has a agreement been reached? Will python 2.0 be included in woody? Do you know other forums where this is discussed? Please don't say debian-private! -- Tom Cato Amundsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GNU Solfege - free eartra

Re: XForms GPL exception...

1999-06-21 Thread Tom Lear
file you've looked at was not > faked). Got it. How about "You still need a separate licence to do so from the owner(s) of the copyright for XForms, see the XForms copyright."? - Tom

Re: XForms GPL exception...

1999-06-19 Thread Tom Lear
On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Joseph Carter wrote: > On Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 01:35:29PM -0700, Tom Lear wrote: > > > Also I think it would be a good thing (even if not strictly > > > required by law) to spell out explicitly that you are not > > > purporting to relicense XForm

Re: XForms GPL exception...

1999-06-18 Thread Tom Lear
On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > Off the debian-legal list now... > > Tom Lear wrote: > > > Well I think that sentence confuses things, specifically the word > > "separate" which to me implies separate from the licence that xforms is > &

Re: XForms GPL exception...

1999-06-18 Thread Tom Lear
On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > Tom Lear wrote: > > > I'm writing the author of xfmix to request an exception for xforms, but > > I'm not clear on a point of our suggested exception. > > > > + You may link this software with XForms

Re: XForms GPL exception...

1999-06-18 Thread Tom Lear
Oops, forgot to say to CC me on replies... I'm not subscribed. - Tom

XForms GPL exception...

1999-06-18 Thread Tom Lear
exception. Is that right? That would mean that we need a separate license from the xforms people. - Tom