Re: License violation in "new" Plex86

2004-04-12 Thread Nathanael Nerode
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: | Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | |>| So, looking at the decision of the Gaiman/McFarlane case, that doesn't |>| appear to be the case: despite the sequential nature of comic book |>| production (storyine -

Re: License violation in "new" Plex86

2004-04-11 Thread Claus Färber
Glenn Maynard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb/wrote: > For what it's worth, there have been a lot of vague mumblings about > authors of "joint works" being able to license the work without > requiring permission from other authors. However, I've yet to see > confirmation of this from a copyright lawye

Re: License violation in "new" Plex86

2004-04-10 Thread Brian Thomas Sniffen
Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | So, looking at the decision of the Gaiman/McFarlane case, that doesn't > | appear to be the case: despite the sequential nature of comic book > | production (storyine -> script -> editor -> art -> publication), the > | characters were regarded as ve

Re: License violation in "new" Plex86

2004-04-10 Thread Nathanael Nerode
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: | Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | |>Glenn Maynard wrote: |> |> |>>On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 11:02:51PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: |>> |>>>The main author of Plex86 forked his own project (heh) to create the

Re: License violation in "new" Plex86

2004-04-09 Thread Brian Thomas Sniffen
Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Glenn Maynard wrote: > >> On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 11:02:51PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: >>> The main author of Plex86 forked his own project (heh) to create the >>> "new" Plex86 effort, and relicensed it under the MIT/X license. He >>> asserted that,

Re: License violation in "new" Plex86

2004-04-08 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Glenn Maynard wrote: > On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 11:02:51PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: >> The main author of Plex86 forked his own project (heh) to create the >> "new" Plex86 effort, and relicensed it under the MIT/X license. He >> asserted that, as the copyright holder, he has permission to do so.

Re: License violation in "new" Plex86

2004-04-08 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 11:02:51PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > The main author of Plex86 forked his own project (heh) to create the "new" > Plex86 effort, and relicensed it under the MIT/X license. He asserted that, > as the copyright holder, he has permission to do so. > > But Plex86 included m

Re: License violation in "new" Plex86

2004-04-08 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 08 Apr 2004, Robert Millan wrote: > The main author of Plex86 forked his own project (heh) to create the > "new" Plex86 effort, and relicensed it under the MIT/X license. He > asserted that, as the copyright holder, he has permission to do so. What he has been able to do is relicense the c

License violation in "new" Plex86

2004-04-08 Thread Robert Millan
Hi! I believe the "new" Plex86 project, a fork of the original Plex86 which is currently hosted in Savannah, is in violation of the LGPL license. The main author of Plex86 forked his own project (heh) to create the "new" Plex86 effort, and relicensed it under the MIT/X license. He asserted that,