Re: SRFI copyright license

2004-01-04 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
d from SRFI implementations, and several of those reference implementations are covered by the standard SRFI copyright license (others are covered by a different, clearly DFSG-free license, like those by Olin Shivers, like SRFI 1). One particular example of such a scheme implementation is Guile, which contains S

Re: SRFI copyright license

2003-12-30 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Brian T. Sniffen wrote: > The license clearly allows you to derive works, as long as you do not > change the SRFI itself. The above sentence is in conflict with itself. A deriviative work must necessarily change the SRFI itself. The end product might not be an SRFI anymore,

Re: SRFI copyright license

2003-12-30 Thread Brian T. Sniffen
Don Armstrong wrote: On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Jakob Bohm wrote: The main trick is to distinguish between the original full text SRFI ("the document") and the free software (document that excerpts or derives from the document). Sure, but if you take that tack, the prohibition of modification of "

Re: SRFI copyright license

2003-12-29 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Jakob Bohm wrote: > The main trick is to distinguish between the original full text SRFI > ("the document") and the free software (document that excerpts or > derives from the document). Sure, but if you take that tack, the prohibition of modification of "the document" becomes

Re: SRFI copyright license

2003-12-28 Thread Jakob Bohm
On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 02:16:45PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Wed, 24 Dec 2003, Brian T. Sniffen wrote: > > I strongly disagree: the license is just saying that you can't > > publish a derivative work of SRFI X as SRFI X, and are otherwise free > > to derive works. > > Could you step throug

Re: SRFI copyright license

2003-12-24 Thread Florian Weimer
Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > I wish to get your opinions on the case of the reference > implementations in the SRFI's. An SRFI, Scheme Request For > Implementation, is the process by which the Scheme community agrees on > standard libraries and features for various scheme > implementations. Every S

Re: SRFI copyright license

2003-12-24 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 24 Dec 2003, Brian T. Sniffen wrote: > I strongly disagree: the license is just saying that you can't > publish a derivative work of SRFI X as SRFI X, and are otherwise free > to derive works. Could you step through your logic of that, without relying on the FAQ? As near as I can parse i

Re: SRFI copyright license

2003-12-24 Thread Brian T. Sniffen
Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 24 Dec 2003, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: >> Every SRFI contains a reference implementation, and bears this >> copyright notice: >> >> Copyright (C) /author/ (/year/). All Rights Reserved. >> >> This document and translations of it may be copi

Re: SRFI copyright license

2003-12-24 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 01:40:33PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Wed, 24 Dec 2003, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: >> Every SRFI contains a reference implementation, and bears this >> copyright notice: >> Is a scheme implementation that includes the reference >> implementation DFSG-free (providing th

Re: SRFI copyright license

2003-12-24 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 24 Dec 2003, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > Every SRFI contains a reference implementation, and bears this > copyright notice: > > Copyright (C) /author/ (/year/). All Rights Reserved. > > This document and translations of it may be copied and furnished to > others, and derivative work

SRFI copyright license

2003-12-24 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
Hi, (This is the next episode of the "let's free scsh" saga.) I wish to get your opinions on the case of the reference implementations in the SRFI's. An SRFI, Scheme Request For Implementation, is the process by which the Scheme community agrees on standard libraries and features for various sche