Re: tomcat.deb is illegal in debian

2001-10-05 Thread Nick Moffitt
begin Raul Miller quotation: > On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 05:25:37PM -0700, Nick Moffitt wrote: > > Combining two modules means connecting them together so that > > they form a single larger program. If either part is covered > > by the GPL, the whole combination must also be released un

Re: tomcat.deb is illegal in debian

2001-10-05 Thread Nick Moffitt
begin Kevin A. Burton quotation: > I assume you are saying that Tomcat/Apache and Debian become one > program at this point? You don't even remember the original question, do you? No, to clarify to those whom you might confuse: Tomcat, apache, debian, all separate programs, an

Re: tomcat.deb is illegal in debian

2001-10-05 Thread Kevin A. Burton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nick Moffitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#MereAggregation says: > > Mere aggregation of two programs means putting them side by side on the > same CD-ROM or hard disk. We use this term in the case

Re: tomcat.deb is illegal in debian

2001-10-05 Thread Raul Miller
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 05:25:37PM -0700, Nick Moffitt wrote: > Combining two modules means connecting them together so that they > form a single larger program. If either part is covered by the > GPL, the whole combination must also be released under the GPL--if > you can't, or won

Re: tomcat.deb is illegal in debian

2001-10-04 Thread Nick Moffitt
begin Kevin A. Burton quotation: > Nick Moffitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > begin Kevin A. Burton quotation: > > > If the FSF site is running Debian/GNU linux with BSD software I > > > don't see any problem... > > > > I believe you misunderstand the GPL. > > ... well you can't just ma

Re: tomcat.deb is illegal in debian

2001-10-04 Thread Kevin A. Burton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nick Moffitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > begin Kevin A. Burton quotation: > > If the FSF site is running Debian/GNU linux with BSD software I > > don't see any problem... > > I believe you misunderstand the GPL. ... well you can't just mak

Re: tomcat.deb is illegal in debian

2001-10-04 Thread Nick Moffitt
begin Kevin A. Burton quotation: > If the FSF site is running Debian/GNU linux with BSD software I > don't see any problem... I believe you misunderstand the GPL. -- "The only thing is certain: Russian petty computer hooligans are very slovenly, while FBI agents are very persistent in

Re: tomcat.deb is illegal in debian

2001-10-04 Thread Kevin A. Burton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This means we can't distribute the tomcat deb, until such changes are > relicensed. It also means that if the tomcat maintainer has accepted patches > on behalf of tomcat, he needs to check with the original p

Re: tomcat.deb is illegal in debian

2001-10-03 Thread Adam Heath
On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Stefan Gybas wrote: > Thanks for pointing this out. I have relicensed my changes under the Apache > license and will upload a fixed package in a couple of minutes after some > testing. The reason I brought this up on debian-legal, is that there could be many such packages that

Re: tomcat.deb is illegal in debian

2001-10-03 Thread Stefan Gybas
Adam Heath wrote: The upstream license for tomcat is the Apache License. The maintainer, however, has licenses his modifications under the GPL. However, according to http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLIncompatibleLicenses, the Apache license is not compatible with the GPL. Tha

tomcat.deb is illegal in debian

2001-10-03 Thread Adam Heath
The upstream license for tomcat is the Apache License. The maintainer, however, has licenses his modifications under the GPL. However, according to http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLIncompatibleLicenses, the Apache license is not compatible with the GPL. This means we can't distri