Re: "Public Domain"

1999-01-31 Thread John Hasler
Steve Greenland writes: > I've always understood that placing a (formerly/potentially) copyrighted > work "in the public domain" is a statement by the author that they are > giving up all copyright rights (if that's the correct phrase), There are some copyright "rights" that you cannot give up (th

Re: Proposed Grail and JPython Licenses

1999-01-31 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Sat, Jan 30, 1999 at 08:46:09AM -0500, Guido van Rossum wrote: > A note on clause 4 (about OROmatcher, a regular expression package > for Java), which only applies to JPython. I expect that this may be > a show-stopper for Debian, It is, for the main distribution. The only thing that matters

Re: Proposed Grail and JPython Licenses

1999-01-31 Thread Henning Makholm
Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. This CNRI LICENSE AGREEMENT (the "Agreement") by and between the > Corporation for National Research Initiatives, having an office at > 1895 Preston White Drive, Reston, VA 20191 ("CNRI") and the Individual > or Organization ("Licensee") requesting

Re: Proposed Grail and JPython Licenses

1999-01-31 Thread John Hasler
Guido van Rossum writes: > A note on clause 4 (about OROmatcher, a regular expression package for > Java), which only applies to JPython. I expect that this may be a > show-stopper for Debian, since OROmatcher is only available in binary > form. It keeps the package out of main. It theoretically

Re: Proposed Grail and JPython Licenses

1999-01-31 Thread James LewisMoss
The license looks good (other than 4 which you already mentioned). Clause 7 is hard to parse. At first I thought it said that CNRI could cancel the license whenever they wanted to. Other than possibly making that clause a bit clearer it looks great. Dres -- @James LewisMoss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>