Re: Educational Community License 1.0

2011-09-12 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Gervase, On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 01:03:02PM +0100, Gervase Markham wrote: > On 29/08/11 15:18, Ben Finney wrote: > >> then effectively Debian policy is that no trademarks may appear > >> anywhere in Debian. The purpose of trademarks in law is as a > >> determinant of origin. > > What in DFSG §

Re: Educational Community License 1.0

2011-09-01 Thread Gervase Markham
On 29/08/11 15:18, Ben Finney wrote: >> then effectively Debian policy is that no trademarks may appear >> anywhere in Debian. The purpose of trademarks in law is as a >> determinant of origin. > > What in DFSG §8 (or in my explanation of it) makes this infeasible, in > your view? If you understa

Re: Educational Community License 1.0

2011-08-29 Thread Ben Finney
Gervase Markham writes: > On 26/08/11 23:09, Ben Finney wrote: > > This effectively means that the trademark license must be universal > > and open to all recipients, regardless of Debian, otherwise it's not > > a free work under the Debian guidelines. > > If you interpret the DFSG that way I d

Re: Educational Community License 1.0

2011-08-29 Thread Gervase Markham
On 26/08/11 23:09, Ben Finney wrote: > Bear in mind that the Debian Free Software Guidelines don't allow a work > into Debian if the license is special to Debian. See DFSG §8: > > 8. License Must Not Be Specific to Debian >The rights attached to the program must not depend on the progr

Re: Educational Community License 1.0

2011-08-26 Thread Francesco Poli
On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 16:13:26 -0400 Amos Blanton wrote: > Thanks for this information. You're welcome. > I ran into Mako Hill yesterday and we now > have a new plan of action: > > - GPL v3 Scratch (Assuming I can get the rest of my team on board). Mmmmh, I am not a big fan of the GNU GPL v3 (

Re: Educational Community License 1.0

2011-08-26 Thread Ben Finney
Amos Blanton writes: > Thanks for this information. I ran into Mako Hill yesterday and we now have > a new plan of action: I'm glad you are having these discussions. > - Separate trademark license to allow Debian and other distros to > distribute the package with our trademarks (the cat, the na

Re: Educational Community License 1.0

2011-08-26 Thread Amos Blanton
o read you! A project I'm interested in is considering the The Educational Community License 1.0 [...] Why, oh why, do people go on writing new useless licenses? It seems that they cannot help but increase license proliferation... :-( [insert here the usual rant against license proliferation, w

Re: Educational Community License 1.0

2011-08-19 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2011/8/19 Francesco Poli : > On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 00:56:43 +0200 Miriam Ruiz wrote: > >> Hi, > > Hi Miriam, > nice to read you! Nice to read you too! Thanks for your answer!! :) > Apart from the fact that it is the n-th non-copyleft permissive license > and that whoever is considering to adopt thi

Re: Educational Community License 1.0

2011-08-19 Thread Francesco Poli
On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 00:56:43 +0200 Miriam Ruiz wrote: > Hi, Hi Miriam, nice to read you! > > A project I'm interested in is considering the The Educational > Community License 1.0 [...] Why, oh why, do people go on writing new useless licenses? It seems that they cannot

Re: Educational Community License 1.0

2011-08-18 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2011/8/19 Andres Mejia : > Here's another helpful link. [1] Scroll down until you see notes about > the Educational Community License. > > 1. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html Thanks, but please notice that I'm talking about Educational Community License 1.0,

Re: Educational Community License 1.0

2011-08-18 Thread Andres Mejia
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 6:56 PM, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > Hi, > > A project I'm interested in is considering the The Educational > Community License 1.0 [1]: > > --- > > This Educational Co

Educational Community License 1.0

2011-08-18 Thread Miriam Ruiz
Hi, A project I'm interested in is considering the The Educational Community License 1.0 [1]: --- This Educational Community License (the "License") applies to any original work of authorship (the