Re: fonts and patents

1999-12-09 Thread Richard Stallman
Yes, indeed, and Kudos to Arphic and also to CLE, the Chinese Linux Extension Team in Taiwan Can you tell me how to contact this team? I would like to talk with them, and explain to them that what they are extending is the GNU system, not Linux. This work has nothing to do with Linux at

Re: [cle-devel] Re: fonts and patents

1999-12-09 Thread Anthony Fok
Hi Richard! On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 06:55:16PM -0700, Richard Stallman wrote: > Yes, indeed, and Kudos to Arphic and also to CLE, the Chinese Linux > Extension Team in Taiwan > > Can you tell me how to contact this team? I would like to talk with > them, and explain to them that what the

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

1999-12-09 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 02:37:35AM +0100, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote: > 2. Debian's packages quality is very inequal. We cant force Debian to > make Quality Standards, and if maintainer of some package dont think > this is a bug, we can do nothing. you've got to be joking! one of the best things

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

1999-12-09 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 01:56:31AM -0500, Caspian wrote: > I'd just like to add my two cents (they're rather big...perhaps > they're two dollars?) to this little discussion. > [342 line rant deleted] i think you exaggerate just a little :) some points that need to be made in response (in random

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

1999-12-09 Thread Tomasz Wegrzanowski
On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 08:23:35PM -0600, Philip Thiem wrote: > My 2 cents: > > If you want it easier for newibes or you want a nice GUI. Consider the > following This is very wrong to think that what all newbies want is GUI for everything. They want browser, they want word processor, they want s

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

1999-12-09 Thread Tomasz Wegrzanowski
On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 10:20:05PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 01:56:31AM -0500, Caspian wrote: > > > I'd just like to add my two cents (they're rather big...perhaps > > they're two dollars?) to this little discussion. > > > [342 line rant deleted] > > i think you exagg

Is new license of libjcode-perl DFSG-free?

1999-12-09 Thread Masayuki Hatta
Hi, Now I'm talking with the author of jcode.pl(libjcode-perl, currently in non-free) about changing its license. Recently he gave me the draft of new license for it. It goes like: ;# Use and redistribution for ANY PURPOSE are granted as long as all ;# copyright notices are retained. Redistr

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

1999-12-09 Thread Caspian
On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 01:56:31AM -0500, Caspian wrote: > > > I'd just like to add my two cents (they're rather big...perhaps > > they're two dollars?) to this little discussion. > > > [342 line rant deleted] > > i think you exaggerate just a little :

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

1999-12-09 Thread Matej Cepl
On 7 Dec 99, at 23:10, Richard Makin wrote: > It's an interesting situation, because in countries like Poland you are > explicitly granted with the right to deasemble the program, even if ELA > states the opposite - the Polish law overrules it. I am a Czech lawyer (Czech republic is neighbor to P

Re: Is new license of libjcode-perl DFSG-free?

1999-12-09 Thread David Starner
On Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 12:07:28AM +0900, Masayuki Hatta wrote: > Hi, > > Now I'm talking with the author of jcode.pl(libjcode-perl, currently in > non-free) about changing its license. Recently he gave me the draft of new > license for it. It goes like: > > ;# Use and redistribution for ANY

RE: Is new license of libjcode-perl DFSG-free?

1999-12-09 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 09-Dec-1999 Masayuki Hatta wrote: > Hi, > > Now I'm talking with the author of jcode.pl(libjcode-perl, currently in > non-free) about changing its license. Recently he gave me the draft of new > license for it. It goes like: > > ;# Use and redistribution for ANY PURPOSE are granted as lon

Re: Is new license of libjcode-perl DFSG-free?

1999-12-09 Thread Tomasz Wegrzanowski
On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 03:21:44PM -0600, David Starner wrote: > On Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 12:07:28AM +0900, Masayuki Hatta wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Now I'm talking with the author of jcode.pl(libjcode-perl, currently in > > non-free) about changing its license. Recently he gave me the draft of new