Jim Larus writes:
> I give permission to anyone to modify and distribute spim and xspim,
> so long as my name and copyright remains on the code.
I'm not sure whether the wording of this is sufficient. The good news is
that the intent seems a perfect match for the “Expat license” terms.
Could yo
-Original Message-
From: Ben Finney [mailto:ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au]
Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 7:41 PM
To: Jim Larus
Cc: debian-legal@lists.debian.org; Mackenzie Morgan
Subject: Re: RFS: spim
Jim Larus writes:
> Just to confirm: I give permission to any open source project
Jim Larus writes:
> Just to confirm: I give permission to any open source project to
> modify and distribute spim and xspim, so long as my name and copyright
> remains on the code.
Thanks for persisting with this.
However, this is insufficient for the work to meet the Debian Free
Software Guide
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From: paul.is.w...@gmail.com [mailto:paul.is.w...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Paul
Wise
Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 5:59 PM
To: Jim Larus
Cc: debian-legal@lists.debian.org; Mackenzie Morgan
Subject: Re: RFS: spim
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 7:52 AM, Jim Larus wrote:
> OK, let's make this simple.
>
> The Debian project has permission to distribute spim and xspim.
...
> Is this sufficient?
Great, thanks!
Some permission to modify and distribute modified versions would be
useful in the case a bug needs to be
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From: Ben Finney [mailto:ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au]
Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 3:20 PM
To: debian-legal@lists.debian.org
Cc: Mackenzie Morgan; Jim Larus
Subject: Re:
Ben Finney writes:
> Far better than a separate statement in email, the full license terms
> should simply be updated in a new release of the work. That way, every
> recipient has access to the full terms under which they can act.
>
> Then the new license terms can be discussed as a whole here on
Mackenzie Morgan writes:
> On Monday 19 October 2009 3:42:31 am Ben Finney wrote:
> > Perhaps the copyright holder doesn't realise that, if he grants
> > additional permissions that “welcome packaging and redistribution”,
> > that *is* changing the license (at least, the license as received by
>
On Monday 19 October 2009 3:42:31 am Ben Finney wrote:
> Paul Wise writes:
> > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Ben Finney
wrote:
> > > This grants no permission to redistribute. What license from the
> > > copyright holder does the Debian project have to redistribute this
> > > in ‘non-free’?
>
Mackenzie Morgan writes:
> On Monday 19 October 2009 5:10:54 am Ben Finney wrote:
> > Okay. The Debian project still needs the copyright holder's explicit
> > license to redistribute, otherwise the work can't even be in
> > ‘non-free’.
>
> I talked to Larus and he said he would send a statement t
On Monday 19 October 2009 5:10:54 am Ben Finney wrote:
> Okay. The Debian project still needs the copyright holder's explicit
> license to redistribute, otherwise the work can't even be in ‘non-free’.
I talked to Larus and he said he would send a statement to Debian Legal. Does
that work?
--
Ma
Ben Finney writes:
>> * Package name: spim
>> Version : 7.5-1
When I was asked to some university exercises with spim I used spimsal
4.4.2, a fork of an older version of spim that advertises itself to be
available under the terms of the GPL v1. How about packaging it
instead?
I'll
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> I think it's unlikely that an alert ftpmaster would today allow it into
> the archive in such a state, and I'm alerting the maintainer of this.
In case you missed it, spim has been removed from Debian for a long
time so there is no reason to a
Charles Plessy writes:
> Le Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 06:42:31PM +1100, Ben Finney a écrit :
> > Not only that, it isn't an explicit statement from the copyright
> > holder at all; it's someone else reporting in their own words:
[…]
> > That's far from what we normally require: explicit written licen
Ben Finney writes:
> Paul Wise writes:
> > IMO, the statement isn't particularly clear and I would not want
> > Debian to rely on it.
>
> Not only that, it isn't an explicit statement from the copyright
> holder at all; it's someone else reporting in their own words
[…]
> Better to re-write the
[sending again, this time with Mackenzie's requested Cc]
Ben Finney writes:
> Paul Wise writes:
> > IMO, the statement isn't particularly clear and I would not want
> > Debian to rely on it.
>
> Not only that, it isn't an explicit statement from the copyright
> holder at all; it's someone else
Le Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 06:42:31PM +1100, Ben Finney a écrit :
> Paul Wise writes:
> >
> > http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/non-free/s/spim/current/copyright
> >
>
> Not only that, it isn't an explicit statement from the copyright holder
> at all; it's someone else reporting in their ow
On Monday 19 October 2009 3:42:31 am Ben Finney wrote:
> Since it seems the copyright holder wants to have as little hassle from
> copyright licensing as possible, I would suggest the terms of the Expat
> license http://www.jclark.com/xml/copying.txt> as being brief,
> easily-understood, and clearl
Paul Wise writes:
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Ben Finney
> wrote:
> > This grants no permission to redistribute. What license from the
> > copyright holder does the Debian project have to redistribute this
> > in ‘non-free’?
> >
> > If the answer is “nothing explicit”, then the default c
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> Mackenzie Morgan writes:
>> The license is as follows:
>> You may make copies of SPIM for your own use and modify those copies.
>>
>> All copies of SPIM must retain my name and copyright notice.
>>
>> You may not sell SPIM or distri
Mackenzie Morgan writes:
> [Please CC me in replies]
Done. I am sending to the ‘debian-legal’ forum, to discuss the license
terms of the work.
> * Package name: spim
> Version : 7.5-1
> Upstream Author : James R. Larus
> * URL : http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~larus/spi
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