Re: summary of the problem...

1999-04-18 Thread Andrea Fanfani
On Sun, Apr 18, 1999 at 12:14:36AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: (first of all i hope that the Cc: field doesn't mailbombing anybody :-)) > I consider "free except for the prohibition on derivatives" an oxymoron. The > essential property of DFSG-freeness is the possibility to derive a new work

Re: summary of the problem...

1999-04-18 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Apr 17, 1999 at 11:31:20PM +0200, Andrea Fanfani wrote: > John Hasler: > > The _Linux Programmers Guide_ is non-free because its license contains > this: "If you make money with it the authors want a share." > > The LDP license is free except for the prohibition on derivatives. IMHO

Re: summary of the problem...

1999-04-17 Thread John Hasler
Andrea Fanfani writes: > Now if I have understood the programmer guide is sure a non-free but the > others guide are DFSG complaint ( but deprecated). > Well, your opinion It is my opinion that the linux kernel and user guide documents should be allowed into main. As I noted previously, others d

summary of the problem...

1999-04-17 Thread Andrea Fanfani
On Sat, Apr 17, 1999 at 04:51:26AM +0200, Richard Braakman wrote: [...] Hi I can try to make a brief summary of the discussion inside debian-legal on the licence of the guides of linux documentation project. First of all you can find the licences of the guides at www.edu.ph.unito.it/~andrea 1)