Re: Is this Debian-specific?

1999-04-07 Thread John Hasler
Santiago Vila quotes: > Permission to modify the software is granted, but not the right to > distribute the modified code. Modifications are to be distributed as > patches to released version. And writes: > Appended to this, in the copyright file, there is an email from the > Debian maintai

Re: Is this Debian-specific?

1999-04-07 Thread John Hasler
Henning Makholm writes: > 1: is a vaguely formulated emailed statement of intention legally > binding enough to be OK for the DFSG. > 2: should we interpret the email as being "specific to Debian" simply > because the author made his statement in the context of a request > for clarification

Re: about logos

1999-04-07 Thread Jonathan P Tomer
[ migrated from -vote to -legal; ionutz, i've cc'ed you too because i don't know if you're on the list. ] > About modifying the logos now: > I am curious on one thing: if I can modify the liberal one, I can make > it look like the official one. For the swirl: I remove the botle and > make the swi

XWatch GPL+XForms license (was Re: Intent to package xmemos)

1999-04-07 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I'd like to seek a license change for xwatch, xplot and xcolmix (currently GPL) for something like this: This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either ve

Is sha considered munition?

1999-04-07 Thread Jens Ritter
Dear Readers. I am currently packaging the cdindex client and server program from cdindex.org. While doing this I stumbled over this in the source: /* NIST Secure Hash Algorithm */ /* heavily modified by Uwe Hollerbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED] edu> */ /* from Peter C. Gutmann's implementation as fou

Re: Is sha considered munition?

1999-04-07 Thread Ben Pfaff
Jens Ritter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: While doing this I stumbled over this in the source: /* NIST Secure Hash Algorithm */ /* heavily modified by Uwe Hollerbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED] edu> */ /* from Peter C. Gutmann's implementation as found in */ /* Applied Cryptography by Bruce

FSF free software definition >-< DFSG

1999-04-07 Thread Andrew Pimlott
I just saw the item on slashdot.org that the Free Software foundation has updated its definition of free software (http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/free-sw.html). The changes seem to have come out of RMS's recent essay (which I swear I read on-line, but I can't find for the life of me) that appeared

Re: FSF free software definition >-< DFSG

1999-04-07 Thread Andrew Pimlott
> RMS's recent essay (which I swear I read on-line, but I can't > find for the life of me) that appeared in "Open Sources". There it is. http://www.fsf.org/gnu/thegnuproject.html

Modification of reference material

1999-04-07 Thread Liam Quinn
Hi, I maintain some HTML and CSS references in HTML and other formats [1]. The current usage guidelines [2] prevent inclusion of the references in the main Debian distribution, but I would like to correct this by issuing new guidelines for using the references. I don't mind having the references

Re: FSF free software definition >-< DFSG

1999-04-07 Thread Darren O. Benham
On Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 01:52:59PM -0400, Andrew Pimlott wrote: > I just saw the item on slashdot.org that the Free Software foundation has > updated its definition of free software > (http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/free-sw.html). The changes seem to have > come out of RMS's recent essay (which I s

Re: Is sha considered munition?

1999-04-07 Thread John Hasler
> I am now wondering (Well, I am not sure), if I now have to put the > package into non-us or if I can put I into the normal archive. Depends on what the code does. Everything labeled "Secure" is not cryptography. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI