Re: Licence query

2008-09-15 Thread MJ Ray
Måns Rullgård <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The first "it" is clearly referring to the unmodified source. The > second "it" has no other noun to refer to [...] No noun except the altered source, the outcome of the first action? Compare: if I say "This box: I'll wrap it and post it to you" then I

Re: Licence query

2008-09-14 Thread Måns Rullgård
Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This one time, at band camp, Måns Rullgård said: >> Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > This one time, at band camp, Måns Rullgård said: >> >> There is one thing about that license that strikes me as slightly odd. >> >> >> >> Permission i

Re: Licence query

2008-09-14 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Måns Rullgård said: > Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > This one time, at band camp, Måns Rullgård said: > >> There is one thing about that license that strikes me as slightly odd. > >> > >> Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any p

Re: Licence query

2008-09-14 Thread Måns Rullgård
Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This one time, at band camp, Måns Rullgård said: >> There is one thing about that license that strikes me as slightly odd. >> >> Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose, >> including commercial applications, and to alter

Re: Licence query

2008-09-14 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Måns Rullgård said: > There is one thing about that license that strikes me as slightly odd. > > Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose, > including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it > freely, subject to th

Re: Licence query

2008-09-14 Thread Måns Rullgård
Francesco Poli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 14 Sep 2008 17:10:17 +0100 Julian Gilbey wrote: > >> Hi all! > > Hi! :) > >> >> I'm looking at a package (GLFW, bindings to OpenGL from Haskell) which >> has the following licence. I think that it is DFSG-free, but I'd like >> someone else to

Re: Licence query

2008-09-14 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sun, 14 Sep 2008 17:10:17 +0100 Julian Gilbey wrote: > Hi all! Hi! :) > > I'm looking at a package (GLFW, bindings to OpenGL from Haskell) which > has the following licence. I think that it is DFSG-free, but I'd like > someone else to check over it, as I've not seen a licence exactly like

Re: Licence Query: petris (new package)

2004-02-22 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 10:29:25PM +1100, Andree Leidenfrost wrote: > I have started packaging petris, a command line tetris clone > (http://home1.stofanet.dk/peter-seidler/). > > The README says: > > "LICENSE" > You can do whatever you want with the program, it's Public Domain. > (however, i

Re: Licence Query: petris (new package)

2004-02-22 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Andree Leidenfrost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > "LICENSE" > You can do whatever you want with the program, it's Public Domain. > (however, it would be nice of you to credit me if you found anything > of this useful). > Is this DFSG compliant? Yes. (Jurisdiction that do not acknowledge au

Re: Licence query

2004-02-04 Thread Roger Leigh
Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 03 Feb 2004, Roger Leigh wrote: >> It appears to be a BSD-style licence, with all UCB references >> removed, > > Yeah, that's pretty much what it is. > >> but I'd just like to check with you that it is DFSG-free since it is >> a different licence

Re: Licence query

2004-02-03 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 03 Feb 2004, Roger Leigh wrote: > It appears to be a BSD-style licence, with all UCB references > removed, Yeah, that's pretty much what it is. > but I'd just like to check with you that it is DFSG-free since it is > a different licence, and IANAL. In particular, the "no advertising > wi

Re: Licence query

2004-02-03 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 02:46:54PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > The following licence is in use by the libpqxx package (C++ binding > for PostgreSQL), and a companion library (libpqxx-object) which I am > writing. It appears to be a BSD-style licence, with all UCB > references removed, but I'd just