Re: Endorsements (was Re: GPL compatibility of DFCL)

2002-06-16 Thread John Galt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 15 Jun 2002, Branden Robinson wrote: >On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 05:51:23PM -0500, Chris Lawrence wrote: >> Wouldn't the endorsements issue be best resolved by licensing the >> endorsements separately from the rest of the document? > >Names are n

Re: endorsements disclaimer as part of the warranty statement

2002-06-16 Thread Jeremy Hankins
Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So, might not the DFCL say something like: > > BECAUSE THE CONTENT OF THE WORK IS FREELY MODIFIABLE BY ALL THIRD > PARTIES, THERE IS NO WARRANTY THAT ANY REPRESENTATIONS MADE WITH IN ARE > MADE BY, ON BEHALF OF, OR WITH THE CONSENT OF THE AUTHOR(S) OR

Re: endorsements disclaimer as part of the warranty statement

2002-06-16 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 02:08:56PM -0400, Jeremy Hankins wrote: > I had a hypothetical all ready that would show how someone could use > the sort of tunneling you were talking about to tie malicious code > (e.g., spyware, or copy-right checking code) to something else and > claim the result was GPL

Re: endorsements disclaimer as part of the warranty statement

2002-06-16 Thread Jeremy Hankins
Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 02:08:56PM -0400, Jeremy Hankins wrote: >> I had a hypothetical all ready that would show how someone could use >> the sort of tunneling you were talking about to tie malicious code >> (e.g., spyware, or copy-right checking cod

Re: GNU FDL 1.2 draft comment summary posted, and RFD

2002-06-16 Thread Walter Landry
Jeff Licquia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 17:52, Walter Landry wrote: > > Jeff Licquia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Regarding your specific concerns: The "at no charge" part was predicated > > > on an understanding that this was one of three options. You can either > > >

Re: endorsements disclaimer as part of the warranty statement

2002-06-16 Thread Jeff Licquia
On Sun, 2002-06-16 at 20:08, Jeremy Hankins wrote: > It'd be a bit more complicated. Say you have some dvd reading code > whose license says that so long as it's used in conjunction with the > functions in evil.c (which is GPL'd) the resultant work can be > distributed under the GPL. But if you r

Re: endorsements disclaimer as part of the warranty statement

2002-06-16 Thread Ben Pfaff
Jeff Licquia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If evil.c is under the GPL, then it can be modified for any purpose > (including disabling its functionality). For most purposes, yes, but not for *any* purpose. See section 2(c) of the GPL for details: c) If the modified program normally reads com

Re: GNU FDL 1.2 draft comment summary posted, and RFD

2002-06-16 Thread Jeff Licquia
On Sun, 2002-06-16 at 21:29, Walter Landry wrote: > Jeff Licquia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That's not the problem of the distributor. If they handwrite "you can > > get your own copy from http://foo.com/bar"; on the back of the last page, > > they aren't required to give you network access fo