Re: Amicus Brief in DVD CCA v. Bunner, et al.

2001-10-13 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Branden Robinson) writes: > Why shouldn't the State of California be able to assert its jurisdiction > over anyone in the world in civil matters? (You can't extradite someone > on a non-criminal complaint, AFAIK.) Not quite... at this point, the question is narrower: Why shoul

Re: Licence for free ttf fonts - open source enough?

2001-10-13 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 13-Oct-2001 Branden Robinson wrote: > On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 02:23:54PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: >> The problem is that it is hard to associate a name to a font. In Debian we >> have the copyright file, but elsewhere there is no such requirement. This >> is >> why digital artworks o

Re: Licence for free ttf fonts - open source enough?

2001-10-13 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 11:00:25PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > of course it is, but people do it all the time. To code, to art, to > practically anything. "Hey I got this off the Net it must be free". > > My point was that we have a policy requiring the copyright to be included in a > kn

Re: Licence for free ttf fonts - open source enough?

2001-10-13 Thread David Starner
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 01:24:12AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > Every font file format with which I am familiar permits inclusion of > copyright data. Even simple ones like BDF, which, being capable of > representing only bitmaps, you can't assert copyright on anyway. I've read that in countr

Re: Response to the j2se licencing concerns

2001-10-13 Thread Stephen Zander
> "Mark" == Mark Wielaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mark> I don't think that the concerns are about the extra clauses Mark> that Blackdown added in their supplemental license. They Mark> could be a bit more clear as has already been noted. It is a Mark> bit unclear how "Linux

Re: Response to the j2se licencing concerns

2001-10-13 Thread Stephen Stafford
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [there is no indication in the headers as to whether Stephen wishes to be CCd or not. To be safe I am CCing him] On Sunday 14 Oct 2001 2:34 am, Stephen Zander wrote: > > Mark> The other concern mentioned on debian-legal by Stephen > > Mark>