Re: MMIX license OK for main?

1999-12-07 Thread Marc van Leeuwen
Excuse me for reopening a month-old thread, but browsing the archives I thought I had something of interest (email from Knuth, no less! albeit a bit old) to add to this one. Mike Goldman wrote: >"J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" wrote: > >> On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 21:37:13 -0800, Bruce Perens wrote: >> > Ther

Re: picasm license

1999-12-07 Thread Henning Makholm
Tomasz Wegrzanowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 10:53:20PM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: > > Tomasz Wegrzanowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > What is wrong with picasm license ? > This is non-free license. But why do I have /usr/doc/picasm/copyright: The license

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

1999-12-07 Thread Richard Stallman
I thought rather about a set of tools that put together will make a web browser. This will be : That sounds like the Unix design approach. I tend to think that this approach would be more work, and would result in something not as easy to use. Part I dont know how will be done is jav

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

1999-12-07 Thread Caspian
On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Joey Hess wrote: > Caspian wrote: > > In most cases, I'd bet dollars to doughnuts that those who "buy" modern > > commercial GNU/Linux dists (which are often laced with tons of non-free > > code, usually-- as in the case of Red Hat-- completely unsegregated from > > free code,

fonts and patents

1999-12-07 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Richard, two news which may interest you. .) Arphic Inc, a Taiwanese font company, has released four Chinese TrueType fonts, two covering the GB character set, and the other two having Big 5 character set. The licence (which you can find attached, justified to fit the screen better) is

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

1999-12-07 Thread Joey Hess
Caspian wrote: > In most cases, I'd bet dollars to doughnuts that those who "buy" modern > commercial GNU/Linux dists (which are often laced with tons of non-free > code, usually-- as in the case of Red Hat-- completely unsegregated from > free code, and often part of the base system) 99.9% FUD. R

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

1999-12-07 Thread Richard Makin
*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 99-12-05 at 20:46 Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote: >On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 10:18:33PM -0500, Jeff Teunissen wrote: >> Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote: >> > >> > Are licenses where reverse engeneering is prohibiten invalid ? >> >> Yes, because reverse-engineeri

Re: fonts and patents

1999-12-07 Thread L. Peter Deutsch
> .) Arphic Inc, a Taiwanese font company, has released four Chinese >TrueType fonts, two covering the GB character set, and the other >two having Big 5 character set. The licence (which you can find >attached, justified to fit the screen better) is a slightly >modified GPL which f

Re: picasm license

1999-12-07 Thread Tomasz Wegrzanowski
On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 06:28:38PM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: > > > The license you quote does seem free to me. Apparently it is new > with version 1.6 of picasm. The one in slink still has the non-free > license I found. > > The Debian changelog provides some clues as to why it is still in >