Re: Keeping track of DSFG-free and non-free licenses

2004-07-29 Thread Walter Landry
MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2004-07-24 12:13:08 +0100 "Parsons, Drew" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > After debian-legal goes to all the trouble of determining whether some > > licence is free or not, it would be useful for their decision to be > > displayed, so others can easily se

Re: Keeping track of DSFG-free and non-free licenses

2004-07-27 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-07-24 12:13:08 +0100 "Parsons, Drew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: After debian-legal goes to all the trouble of determining whether some licence is free or not, it would be useful for their decision to be displayed, so others can easily see the decision later, without having to waste ti

Re: Keeping track of DSFG-free and non-free licenses

2004-07-24 Thread Thomas Maurer
Am Sam, den 24.07.2004 schrieb Frank Lichtenheld um 14:26: > This already exists: http://www.debian.org/legal/licenses/ > I didn't annouced or linked this very "visible" yet as there are ongoing > discussions on d-legal how to do this right. If you want, I can dig in > the list's archives for some

Re: Keeping track of DSFG-free and non-free licenses

2004-07-24 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 11:15:58PM +1000, Parsons, Drew wrote: > > [MFT to d-legal, don't know what d-devel has to do with this] > > Keeping track of licences for prospective new packages is of interest to all > developers. Correct. So is keeping track of how close we are to finishing debian-inst

RE: Keeping track of DSFG-free and non-free licenses

2004-07-24 Thread Parsons, Drew
> -Original Message- > From: Frank Lichtenheld [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, 24 July 2004 10:26 PM > > [MFT to d-legal, don't know what d-devel has to do with this] Keeping track of licences for prospective new packages is of interest to all developers. > > On Sat, Jul 24

Re: Keeping track of DSFG-free and non-free licenses

2004-07-24 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
[MFT to d-legal, don't know what d-devel has to do with this] On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 09:13:08PM +1000, Parsons, Drew wrote: > I notice our free-software page, the one that points to the DSFG text > (http://www.debian.org/intro/free), refers to a couple of sample free > licenses (GPL, BSD et al).

Re: Keeping track of DSFG-free and non-free licenses

2004-07-24 Thread Laurent Fousse
On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 09:59:39PM +1000, Anibal Monsalve Salazar wrote: > On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 01:31:40PM +0200, Laurent Fousse wrote: > >I stopped reading right after 1e. > > Do you mean 1.1.e.? Yes. There are several other smelly clauses with leave little doubt about the freeness of the lic

Re: Keeping track of DSFG-free and non-free licenses

2004-07-24 Thread Anibal Monsalve Salazar
On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 01:31:40PM +0200, Laurent Fousse wrote: >I stopped reading right after 1e. Do you mean 1.1.e.? Anibal Monsalve Salazar -- .''`. Debian GNU/Linux | Building 28C : :' : Free Operating System | Monash University VIC 3800, Australia `. `' http://debian.org/| http

Re: Keeping track of DSFG-free and non-free licenses

2004-07-24 Thread Laurent Fousse
On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 09:13:08PM +1000, Parsons, Drew wrote: > My motivation for asking for this is that my Xprint upstream author prefers > ksh93 to bash, and would prefer it if we were to use it. Looking into > ksh93, AT&T has now released it as open-source, but the licence > (http://www.resea