Re: msntp license

2010-03-15 Thread Charles Plessy
[CC Jakub Drnec because I correct one statement I made earlier this year about the MSNTP license] Le Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 07:44:11PM +0100, Florian Weimer a écrit : > * Charles Plessy: > > I think that Clause 1 disallows for-profit distribution. Can a redistributor > > burn a CD and sell it with f

Re: msntp license

2010-03-15 Thread Florian Weimer
* Charles Plessy: > I think that Clause 1 disallows for-profit distribution. Can a redistributor > burn a CD and sell it with financial benefit without express written consent > of > the copyright holders of MSNTP? You can't do that with software released under the Artistic license, either, that

Re: msntp license

2010-03-14 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 02:43:07AM +0100, Florian Weimer a écrit : > * Charles Plessy: > > >> Excerpt from the license: " 1. You may distribute MSNTP or components of > >> MSNTP, with or without additions developed by you or by others. No charge, > >> other than an "at-cost" distribution fee, may

Re: msntp license

2010-03-14 Thread Florian Weimer
* Charles Plessy: >> Excerpt from the license: " 1. You may distribute MSNTP or components of >> MSNTP, with or without additions developed by you or by others. No charge, >> other than an "at-cost" distribution fee, may be charged for copies, >> derivations, or distributions of this material wit

Re: msntp license

2010-03-02 Thread Adam Cécile (Le_Vert)
Le 02/03/2010 13:27, jay...@email.cz a écrit : Dear Jakub, good catch, the package is not free. I would add that its upstream homepage is not available anymore, and that his maintainer does not seem to be active either. Unless somebody steps up to care of msntp in non-free, I would rather recom

Re: Re: msntp license

2010-03-02 Thread jaydee
> Dear Jakub, > > good catch, the package is not free. I would add that its upstream homepage is > not available anymore, and that his maintainer does not seem to be active > either. Unless somebody steps up to care of msntp in non-free, I would rather > recommend removal. No package depend on ms

Re: msntp license

2010-03-02 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 12:19:58PM +0100, jay...@email.cz a écrit : > Hi all, > > the msntp package is marked in debian as being GPL2, while in reality it is > licensed according to the confusingly named "General Public Licence for the > software known as MSNTP". > > Excerpt from the license: " 1