Re: final licence question.

2002-11-12 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 11:16:20AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 05:32:00PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 10:27:27AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 05:20:39PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > > Yes, thought so, since the

Re: final licence question.

2002-11-12 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 05:32:00PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 10:27:27AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 05:20:39PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Yes, thought so, since the GPL only applies on redistribution, not on > > > something you do in-hous

Re: final licence question.

2002-11-12 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 10:27:27AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 05:20:39PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Yes, thought so, since the GPL only applies on redistribution, not on > > something you do in-house. > > > But i think it would be fine to have the exemption and th

Re: final licence question.

2002-11-12 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 05:20:39PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > Yes, thought so, since the GPL only applies on redistribution, not on > something you do in-house. > But i think it would be fine to have the exemption and the > redistribution rights of the proprietary .o nonethless. If the exemptio

Re: final licence question.

2002-11-12 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 10:15:50AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 05:06:33PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > > What would be needed for the proprietary part ? A licence stating that > > > > it is ok to distribute it and link it with the GPLed driver ? Would that > > > > b

Re: final licence question.

2002-11-12 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 05:06:33PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > What would be needed for the proprietary part ? A licence stating that > > > it is ok to distribute it and link it with the GPLed driver ? Would that > > > be enough ? > > Permission to redistribute both the .o files, and binary k

Re: final licence question.

2002-11-12 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 10:02:03AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 04:38:40PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > If their code is GPL with an exemption, and the library they use is > > > non-free and we can legally redistribute it, and the two pieces of code > > > will be dis

Re: final licence question.

2002-11-12 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 04:38:40PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > If their code is GPL with an exemption, and the library they use is > > non-free and we can legally redistribute it, and the two pieces of code > > will be distributed together, this can be uploaded to non-free. Note > > that being

Re: final licence question.

2002-11-12 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 09:32:34AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 12:15:42PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > I am about to send upstream my latest advice on the licence issues i > > discussed here previously, and have one last question. > > > To recapitulate, upstream is p

Re: final licence question.

2002-11-12 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 12:15:42PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > I am about to send upstream my latest advice on the licence issues i > discussed here previously, and have one last question. > To recapitulate, upstream is packaging a pci adsl modem driver, which > use a software library to do the A

final licence question.

2002-11-12 Thread Sven Luther
Hello, ... I am about to send upstream my latest advice on the licence issues i discussed here previously, and have one last question. To recapitulate, upstream is packaging a pci adsl modem driver, which use a software library to do the ADSL decoding. They don't have the source to this library t