Re: Question about license compatibility

2005-09-02 Thread Marco d'Itri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Hope to have answered to your question. I am sorry but I did not succeed >> in asking Berkeley's Regents for a license change. >Didn't they issue a blanket license change for _all_ code owned by them >under the old bsd license? Yes. But the original spice code was not

Re: Question about license compatibility

2005-09-01 Thread Jordan Abel
Hope to have answered to your question. I am sorry but I did not succeedin asking Berkeley's Regents for a license change. Didn't they issue a blanket license change for _all_ code owned by them under the old bsd license?

Re: Question about license compatibility

2005-08-27 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 02:26:16AM +0300, Gerasimos Melissaratos wrote: > Below I include the answer I got from Mr Nenzi about the ngspice licencing. > In short, I asked him about the possibility of a re-release of ngspice with > the new BSD license or something else compatible with Debian. The sho

Re: Question about license compatibility

2005-08-27 Thread Gerasimos Melissaratos
Below I include the answer I got from Mr Nenzi about the ngspice licencing. In short, I asked him about the possibility of a re-release of ngspice with the new BSD license or something else compatible with Debian. The short answer is no. In the face of that, would it be possible to include a packa

Re: Question about license compatibility

2005-07-24 Thread Jeff Licquia
On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 21:46 -0700, Sean Kellogg wrote: > On Saturday 23 July 2005 08:04 pm, Jeff Licquia wrote: > > On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 17:11 -0700, Sean Kellogg wrote: > > > This is a difficult situation that is worth commentary. Assume for a > > > moment that the U.S. has some strict export re

Re: Question about license compatibility

2005-07-24 Thread Nathanael Nerode
> On Saturday 23 July 2005 04:41 pm, Francesco Poli wrote: > > On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 00:03:56 -0700 Sean Kellogg wrote: > > > Anyone else have thoughts? > > > > Yes, I have one: > > |3. The licensee agrees to obey all U.S. Government res- trictions > > |governing redistribution or export of t

Re: Question about license compatibility

2005-07-23 Thread Sean Kellogg
On Saturday 23 July 2005 08:04 pm, Jeff Licquia wrote: > On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 17:11 -0700, Sean Kellogg wrote: > > This is a difficult situation that is worth commentary. Assume for a > > moment that the U.S. has some strict export restriction. As a U.S. > > citizen I am bound by those laws and

Re: Question about license compatibility

2005-07-23 Thread Jeff Licquia
On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 17:11 -0700, Sean Kellogg wrote: > This is a difficult situation that is worth commentary. Assume for a moment > that the U.S. has some strict export restriction. As a U.S. citizen I am > bound by those laws and cannot legally violate them. Further, if I am to > distribu

Re: Question about license compatibility

2005-07-23 Thread Sean Kellogg
On Saturday 23 July 2005 04:41 pm, Francesco Poli wrote: > On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 00:03:56 -0700 Sean Kellogg wrote: > > Anyone else have thoughts? > > Yes, I have one: > |3. The licensee agrees to obey all U.S. Government res- trictions > |governing redistribution or export of the software an

Re: Question about license compatibility

2005-07-23 Thread Francesco Poli
On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 00:03:56 -0700 Sean Kellogg wrote: > Anyone else have thoughts? Yes, I have one: |3. The licensee agrees to obey all U.S. Government res- trictions |governing redistribution or export of the software and |documentation. That sounds non-free. Suppose I'm *not* a U

Re: Question about license compatibility

2005-07-22 Thread Florian Weimer
* Anthony W. Youngman: > Actually, doesn't the GPL itself contain exactly the same restriction, > just worded a bit differently? > > The GPL forbids charging for the code itself. Only for the source code which you must make available when you distribute binaries, you may not charge for anything

Re: Question about license compatibility

2005-07-22 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sean Kellogg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes On Friday 22 July 2005 03:28 am, Matthew Garrett wrote: Sean Kellogg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > License 1 contains a limitation on use ("educational, research and > non-profit purposes, without fee") which is a violation o

Re: Question about license compatibility

2005-07-22 Thread Sean Kellogg
On Friday 22 July 2005 03:28 am, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Sean Kellogg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > License 1 contains a limitation on use ("educational, research and > > non-profit purposes, without fee") which is a violation of DFSG #6. > > License 2 is less obvious, but I personally believe t

Re: Question about license compatibility

2005-07-22 Thread Matthew Garrett
Sean Kellogg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > License 1 contains a limitation on use ("educational, research and non-profit > purposes, without fee") which is a violation of DFSG #6. License 2 is less > obvious, but I personally believe that a provision that forbids charging a > fee for distributi

Re: Question about license compatibility

2005-07-22 Thread Sean Kellogg
On Thursday 21 July 2005 04:49 pm, Gerasimos Melissaratos wrote: > X-Hellenic Ministry of Foreign Affairs-MailScanner: Found to be clean > X-MailScanner-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I'd like to create a package for ng-spice, which seems to be governed by > two licenses, which I include herein. In fir