Re: Requiring registration of GPL software

2005-08-09 Thread Gianfranco Lutjens
Himi name its Gianfranco Lutjens, and Im from Chile.I need to know if you ever received the password for the toolbox E4 for matlab. I need it to make a time series analisys very soon. If you got it, please, sent me.greatinf from Chile   Gianfranco

Re: Requiring registration of GPL software

2004-05-20 Thread Josh Triplett
Humberto Massa wrote: > MatLab, itself, seems to be non-free. So, even if debian packages this, > it should go into contrib. Unless it works with GNU Octave, in which case it could go to main. - Josh Triplett

Re: Requiring registration of GPL software

2004-05-20 Thread Danilo Piazzalunga
Henning Makholm wrote: > Indeed, this is excactly the policy that most of us applies to > _foreign_ free software that happens to be in our possession. For > example, I have on my computer the source for a work derived from (a > rather old release of) the Linux kernel, and I'm licensed to > distrib

Re: Requiring registration of GPL software

2004-05-20 Thread Humberto Massa
@ 20/05/2004 10:46 : wrote Danilo Piazzalunga : Hello, Sorry if this is not quite in-topic for debian-legal. I run into E4[1], a collection of Matlab functions, distributed under the GPL. However, the software can be only downloaded as a zip file protected by a password, which you can get

Re: Requiring registration of GPL software

2004-05-20 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit "Michael D. Crawford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Whether the E4 developers are doing wrong depends on who holds the copyright. > However, if E4 is not all their own code, I would say this is a GPL > violation. Even if it is not all their own code, it is fine with the GPL. They have complete

Re: Requiring registration of GPL software

2004-05-20 Thread Humberto Massa
@ 20/05/2004 12:04 : wrote Michael D. Crawford : Whether the E4 developers are doing wrong depends on who holds the copyright. If it's all their own code, and there is no other GPLed source included (that is copyright by someone else), the E4 developers have the right to do this. The lic

Re: Requiring registration of GPL software

2004-05-20 Thread Michael D. Crawford
Whether the E4 developers are doing wrong depends on who holds the copyright. If it's all their own code, and there is no other GPLed source included (that is copyright by someone else), the E4 developers have the right to do this. The license they are granting you specifies what you may do wi

Re: Requiring registration of GPL software

2004-05-20 Thread Humberto Massa
@ 20/05/2004 10:46 : wrote Danilo Piazzalunga : Hello, Sorry if this is not quite in-topic for debian-legal. I run into E4[1], a collection of Matlab functions, distributed under the GPL. However, the software can be only downloaded as a zip file protected by a password, which you can get

Re: Requiring registration of GPL software

2004-05-20 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Danilo Piazzalunga wrote: Hello, Sorry if this is not quite in-topic for debian-legal. I run into E4[1], a collection of Matlab functions, distributed under the GPL. However, the software can be only downloaded as a zip file protected by a password, which you can get only by contacting the a

Requiring registration of GPL software

2004-05-20 Thread Danilo Piazzalunga
Hello, Sorry if this is not quite in-topic for debian-legal. I run into E4[1], a collection of Matlab functions, distributed under the GPL. However, the software can be only downloaded as a zip file protected by a password, which you can get only by contacting the authors: this effectively equ