Re: Debian Package for Phylip - stripped to 3 questions

2001-11-25 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Walter Landry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ummm, where do you see this in the Artistic License? It says that you > can't charge a fee for the package, but you can charge whatever you > like for the act of transferring. How is that going to accomplish > Joe's aims (to get a cut for every copy so

Re: Debian Package for Phylip - stripped to 3 questions

2001-11-23 Thread Walter Landry
John Galt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >You might try to just raise a few questions: > >1. Does any version of GPL restrict how much money redistributers > > can charge for the software? > > The artistic sort of does, but that's not really a VERSION of the GPL > _per se_, it's a completely diff

Re: Debian Package for Phylip - stripped to 3 questions

2001-11-23 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Fri, 23 Nov 2001, John Galt wrote: > >You might try to just raise a few questions: > >1. Does any version of GPL restrict how much money redistributers > > can charge for the software? > > The artistic sort of does, but that's not really a VERSION of the GPL > _per se_, it's a completely diff

Re: Debian Package for Phylip - stripped to 3 questions

2001-11-23 Thread John Galt
e. > >Kind regards > >Andreas. > >-- Forwarded message -- >Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 08:38:49 -0800 (PST) >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Tille Andreas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Debian Package for Phylip > > >Andreas Tille -- &g

Re: Debian Package for Phylip - stripped to 3 questions

2001-11-22 Thread Tille, Andreas
On 22 Nov 2001, Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit "Tille, Andreas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Joe just tried to clean up my rather confuse posting. Just forget about > > that and try to find a suggestion for a DFSG free license which complies > > with Joes requirements. > > > 1. Does any version o

Re: Debian Package for Phylip - stripped to 3 questions

2001-11-22 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit "Tille, Andreas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Joe just tried to clean up my rather confuse posting. Just forget about > that and try to find a suggestion for a DFSG free license which complies > with Joes requirements. > 1. Does any version of GPL restrict how much money redistributers >ca

Re: Debian Package for Phylip - stripped to 3 questions

2001-11-22 Thread Tille, Andreas
-- Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 08:38:49 -0800 (PST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tille Andreas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Debian Package for Phylip Andreas Tille -- > Moreover I cleaned up the lines a little bit. Sorry for the inconvience > and the long posting. I doubt anyone

Re: Debian Package for Phylip

2001-11-22 Thread Peter S Galbraith
The GPL does allow any company to take GPL'ed code and make a commercial product derived from it. Note that I said commercial product, not proprietary. To respect the license, they would have to distribute the source code of their derived products along with any binary they sell, and they would

Re: Debian Package for Phylip

2001-11-22 Thread Tille, Andreas
On 22 Nov 2001, Henning Makholm wrote: > Hm, as far as I can see from the list archives, you posting was a very > hard-to-read one (no introduction to the problem, lots of badly > formatted quotes before any real text begins, etc.). Perhaps if you > repeated your question more concisely somebody w

Re: * Re: Debian Package for Phylip

2001-11-22 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit "Tille, Andreas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > on Thu, 25 Oct 2001 I wrote to Debian legel the message > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2001/debian-legal-200110/msg00161.html > but got neither privat response nor gives archive search any hint > about a response. Hm, as far as I can see

* Re: Debian Package for Phylip

2001-11-22 Thread Tille, Andreas
Hello on Thu, 25 Oct 2001 I wrote to Debian legel the message http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2001/debian-legal-200110/msg00161.html but got neither privat response nor gives archive search any hint about a response. I wonder if this is no interesting question fo debian-legal or if ther

Re: Debian Package for Phylip

2001-10-26 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Sorry for the long quotings. They are just included to get the people of Debian-legal informed.) (Sorry once more Joe, I misspelled the debian-legal address in my first porsting.) > > there are many changes. Perhaps you have a look at the diffs. T