Re: Dangerous precedent being set - possible serious violation of the GPL

1999-12-04 Thread Tomasz Wegrzanowski
I like it ! OK ! First thread : I started to make debian more free I made today wwwtable-compatibile program (freetable) so one program less will be in non-free. Does anyone want to try it ? Its perl, 6kB, GPL, 90%-wwwtable-compatibile, and when it will be able to embed one table into other we can

Re: Dangerous precedent being set - possible serious violation of the GPL

1999-12-04 Thread Richard Stallman
you can not sublicense, mix with non-free code neither by libs nor corba If copyright does consider this a single combined work, then the GPL itself has this consequence. If copyright law does not consider "combining with CORBA" to make a single combined work, then a copyright-based license c

Re: Dangerous precedent being set - possible serious violation of the GPL

1999-12-04 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 11:21:54AM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote: > So, why is it that they can not distribute the software to minors but _can_ > accept software from minors and redistribute it? Because their hypocrites. Because they don't understand the law. Because they understand the law better tha

Re: Dangerous precedent being set - possible serious violation of the GPL

1999-12-04 Thread Henning Makholm
Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> you have to include the note `This distro is partially made of free >> software' in all ads of distros mixed from either free and non-free code > Since the required sentence does not contain the author's name, this > does not cause the same practica

Re: Dangerous precedent being set - possible serious violation of the GPL

1999-12-04 Thread Tomasz Wegrzanowski
On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 02:40:28AM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: > Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> you have to include the note `This distro is partially made of free > >> software' in all ads of distros mixed from either free and non-free code > > > Since the required sentenc

Re: Dangerous precedent being set - possible serious violation of the GPL

1999-12-04 Thread Tomasz Wegrzanowski
On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 06:21:54PM -0700, Richard Stallman wrote: > you can not sublicense, mix with non-free code neither by libs nor corba > > If copyright does consider this a single combined work, > then the GPL itself has this consequence. > > If copyright law does not consider "combinin

Re: Free Download End User License Agreement

1999-12-04 Thread Tomasz Wegrzanowski
On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 03:39:54PM -0600, Chris Lawrence wrote: > On Dec 02, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 03:13:14AM -0600, Chris Lawrence wrote: > > > On Dec 02, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > > > They seem to be put off by liability issues, etc. > > > > > > > > And no doubt

Re: From Corel on the EULA

1999-12-04 Thread Amy Fong
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Zygo Blaxell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Signed message created at Fri Dec 3 00:49:02 1999 by [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >=_944200141-356-0 >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable >Content-Type: text/plain > >In debian.devel.legal, you wrote: >>> --=3D20

Re: Dangerous precedent being set - possible serious violation of the GPL

1999-12-04 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Tomasz" == Tomasz Wegrzanowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tomasz> And that is why I made dfsg changing proposal and reported Tomasz> policy wishlist bug But nobody's interested Possibly because the policy list is the wrong forum for this proposal. Any such effort needs involve

Re: Dangerous precedent being set - possible serious violation of the GPL

1999-12-04 Thread Caspian
On Sat, 4 Dec 1999, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote: > I like it ! > OK ! > > First thread : > I started to make debian more free > I made today wwwtable-compatibile program (freetable) so > one program less will be in non-free. > Does anyone want to try it ? > Its perl, 6kB, GPL, 90%-wwwtable-compatib

Re: Dangerous precedent being set - possible serious violation of the

1999-12-04 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tomasz Wegrzanowski) wrote on 02.12.99 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 11:48:21AM -0500, Caspian wrote: > > I'm afraid this isn't about advertisement, or about the DFSG, or even > > about the GPL. This is about the general trend of companies walking all > > o

Re: Dangerous precedent being set - possible serious violation of the

1999-12-04 Thread Tomasz Wegrzanowski
On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 03:53:00PM +0200, Kai Henningsen wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tomasz Wegrzanowski) wrote on 02.12.99 in <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]>: > > > On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 11:48:21AM -0500, Caspian wrote: > > > I'm afraid this isn't about advertisement, or about the DFSG, or even > > > a