Re: Would this be applicable to the API issue?

2000-06-08 Thread Mike Bilow
On 2000-06-07 at 12:18 -0400, Chloe Hoffman wrote: > trademark at least in the U.S. Taco Cabana won damages - see the U.S. > Supreme Court case here > http://caselaw.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=505&invol=763 > > As a basis for suit in this case, I would not think trade dress inf

Re: Would this be applicable to the API issue?

2000-06-08 Thread Raul Miller
On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 03:39:06AM -0400, Mike Bilow wrote: > My take on this is that the Debian "swirl" is an open-and-shut issue, > and that the copyright claim could be minimally resolved in a way > that would provide no remedy to Debian's real concerns about public > confusion. [1] You don't k

Re: complete clone of the debian website

2000-06-08 Thread Chloe Hoffman
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) To: "Chloe Hoffman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: debian-legal@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: complete clone of the debian website Date: 07 Jun 2000 20:46:33 -0400 "Chloe Hoffman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "All rights reserved" is not necessary. This i

license of smapi

2000-06-08 Thread Martin Butterweck
hi, I ITP smapi (a lib needed by various fido software packages) but I am not sure about the license... :) smapi was derived from the reference code of the squish msgbase format, so its bound to the following license: ---snip--- SQUISH MSGAPI0 LICENCING AGREEMENT Squish MSGAPI0 is copyright 1991

Re: license of smapi

2000-06-08 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Martin Butterweck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 1) This code must not be sold. Permission to post this file on "pay >BBSes" is granted, as long as no extra fee (above and beyond the >normal access charges) is required to download or access this code. > ---snap--- > this means non-free, r

xmysqladmin- make can not find xforms.h

2000-06-08 Thread Rafael Santander
Environment: OS: RedHat Linux 6.2 xforms version: 0.88-2file:bxform-089-glibc2.1.tgz xmysqladmin version: 1.0 file:xmysqladmin_1.0.orig.tar.gz Process: download files mentioned above. Untar files. install xforms

Re: xmysqladmin- make can not find xforms.h

2000-06-08 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Rafael Santander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Environment: > OS: RedHat Linux 6.2 > I have also done searches for an rpm but could not find one. If you know > what the problem is, The problem is that this has nothing at all to do with debian-legal. As the name says, debian-legal is

Re: license of smapi

2000-06-08 Thread Martin Butterweck
On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 11:39:01PM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: > > 3) If you modify this code, you must keep the message format compatible. > That is also non-free. > (Wow, a sunstunt long before sun began doing them!) hmm, if I change the msg format I only lose the right to call it squish compa

Re: complete clone of the debian website (Joke?)

2000-06-08 Thread Greg Fodor
Though I'm not well versed in French, nor do I understand French humor, but I get the feeling by browsing the site a bit that this is some weird form of comedy. Obviously API is not a trademarked term, that's a joke. A few links on the site make puns with what they're linking to (The link fo

Re: license of smapi

2000-06-08 Thread Mike Bilow
On 2000-06-08 at 23:39 +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit Martin Butterweck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > 1) This code must not be sold. Permission to post this file on "pay > >BBSes" is granted, as long as no extra fee (above and beyond the > >normal access charges) is required to do