Re: A short licence check

2004-08-22 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 06:19:36PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > There's no such thing as a copyleft MIT license. Fundamental to the > > concept of the MIT/BSD license is that they're permissive--they let > > you do whatever you want, placing very few restrictions on the work. > > "Permissive"

Re: A short licence check

2004-08-22 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 04:29:29PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > The non-GPL copyleft license I've most frequently encountered is the LGPL. > If A is GPLed and B is LGPLed, it's legal to produce C which is derived > from A and B without getting any further permissions. [B isn't the GPL, > but its te

Re: A short licence check

2004-08-22 Thread Lewis Jardine
Raul Miller wrote: The non-GPL copyleft license I've most frequently encountered is the LGPL. If A is GPLed and B is LGPLed, it's legal to produce C which is derived from A and B without getting any further permissions. [B isn't the GPL, but its terms do not impose anything which is more restri

Re: A short licence check

2004-08-22 Thread Raul Miller
> Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You can release software under multiple licenses if you're the copyright > > holder. If you're not a copyright holder you can still release something > > derived from it under the terms of the gpl if the other copyright doesn't > > have restrictions bey

Re: A short licence check

2004-08-22 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 12:48:58PM -0400, Glenn Maynard wrote: > On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 01:58:11PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 02:51:39PM +0200, Igor Stroh wrote: > > > could someone check this licence[1]? I believe it's somewhat BSD-like, > > > but I'm not quite sure

Re: A short licence check

2004-08-22 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 01:58:11PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 02:51:39PM +0200, Igor Stroh wrote: > > could someone check this licence[1]? I believe it's somewhat BSD-like, > > but I'm not quite sure. It's the licence of python-gtk2-tutorial. Since > > there's no descri

Re: A short licence check

2004-08-22 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-08-22 15:36:20 +0100 Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 03:00:50PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: [...] GPL requires that derived works be released under the GPL. You can't do both of these at the same time. I think I disagree. You can release software under

Re: A short licence check

2004-08-22 Thread Matthew Garrett
Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can release software under multiple licenses if you're the copyright > holder. If you're not a copyright holder you can still release something > derived from it under the terms of the gpl if the other copyright doesn't > have restrictions beyond what

Re: A short licence check

2004-08-22 Thread Raul Miller
On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 03:00:50PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > It requires that derived works be released under the same license. The > GPL requires that derived works be released under the GPL. You can't do > both of these at the same time. I think I disagree. You can release software under

Re: A short licence check

2004-08-22 Thread Matthew Garrett
Freek Dijkstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 22-8-2004 14:58, "Andrew Suffield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> This is a GPL-incompatible, copyleft, DFSG-free license. In other >> respects it is a MIT clone, not a BSD one; this is essentially a >> copyleft MIT license. > > Out of curiousity: > W

Re: A short licence check

2004-08-22 Thread Freek Dijkstra
On 22-8-2004 14:58, "Andrew Suffield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 02:51:39PM +0200, Igor Stroh wrote: >> could someone check this licence[1]? I believe it's somewhat BSD-like, >> but I'm not quite sure. It's the licence of python-gtk2-tutorial. Since >> there's no descript

Re: A short licence check

2004-08-22 Thread Igor Stroh
Andrew Suffield wrote: [...] This is a GPL-incompatible, copyleft, DFSG-free license. In other respects it is a MIT clone, not a BSD one; this is essentially a copyleft MIT license. So basically, it's DFSG-compliant and can be safely included in 'main', right? Oh, and as a general note: DON

Re: A short licence check

2004-08-22 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 01:58:11PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 02:51:39PM +0200, Igor Stroh wrote: > > could someone check this licence[1]? I believe it's somewhat BSD-like, > > but I'm not quite sure. It's the licence of python-gtk2-tutorial. Since > > there's no descri

Re: A short licence check

2004-08-22 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 02:51:39PM +0200, Igor Stroh wrote: > could someone check this licence[1]? I believe it's somewhat BSD-like, > but I'm not quite sure. It's the licence of python-gtk2-tutorial. Since > there's no description of what kind of licence this actually is, I'm afraid > the ftp-mast

A short licence check

2004-08-22 Thread Igor Stroh
Hi everyone, could someone check this licence[1]? I believe it's somewhat BSD-like, but I'm not quite sure. It's the licence of python-gtk2-tutorial. Since there's no description of what kind of licence this actually is, I'm afraid the ftp-masters won't like it... TIA, Igor [1]: http://www.pygt