Re: GPL/LGPL confusion

2001-07-03 Thread Adam J. Richter
Anthony Towns writes: [one dictionary definition deleted] >A license is a grant of permission from whoever's authorized to grant >that permission. I know "license" is a word in the dictionary. Websters lists a variety of definitions, some of which are relevant to the ambiguity of the te

Re: GPL/LGPL confusion

2001-07-03 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 10:20:35PM -0700, Adam J. Richter wrote: > [one dictionary definition deleted] > >A license is a grant of permission from whoever's authorized to grant > >that permission. > I know "license" is a word in the dictionary. And, in particular, it has the right meaning fo

Re: Java, Python and GPL

2001-07-03 Thread Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS
NB: I'm not a lawyer, so don't take anything I write too seriously. Ben Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi; me again. Question this time regards packaging Jython (www.jython.org), > a pure Java implementation of python. > > Jython is currently subject to a DFSG-compilant but possibly GPL-incompa

Re: GPL/LGPL confusion

2001-07-03 Thread Raul Miller
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 04:38:21PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > Alice wrote foo.c, licensed under the GNU X11 license. I've never seen a GNU X11 license, nor is one listed at http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/license-list.html. > Bob wrote bar.c, licensed under the GNU GPL. > > Carol writes baz.c,

bug #96601: system copy of GPL

2001-07-03 Thread Neil Conway
Hi, Could someone from debian-legal take a look at bug 96601? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=96601&repeatmerged=yes (I'd reproduce it here but it may change between now and when someone reads this message). Basically, the author is objecting to the Debian policy of referri

Re: bug #96601: system copy of GPL

2001-07-03 Thread Joey Hess
Neil Conway wrote: > Basically, the author is objecting to the Debian policy of referring to > the system-wide copy of the GPL; he is arguing that a copy of the GPL > should be included with his package, which is GPL'd. He makes some > pretty good points, but Debian policy disagrees with him. RMS

Re: GPL/LGPL confusion

2001-07-03 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 11:54:22AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 04:38:21PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > Alice wrote foo.c, licensed under the GNU X11 license. > I've never seen a GNU X11 license, nor is one listed at > http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/license-list.html. Ther