On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 11:31:48PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The Readme for VCG says:
[...]
> We thank the Compare Consortium for the permission to distribute
> this software and documentation freely. You can redistribute
> it under the terms of the GNU General Public Lice
On 26 Aug 2002, David Turner wrote:
>> The apsfilter license is a combination of the GNU GPL and postcardware
>
> Does apsfilterconfig link against any other GPL'd programs?
No, it is a bash script. It also seems that all contributors of
apsfilter have transferred their copyrights to the prima
Hi, I am one of the APSFILTER user who send you post card :)
I like your post card ware idea :)
But problem is If LICENSE file supersede COPYRIGHT file, APSFILTER may
be considered non-FREE in Debian by some folks. There was a discussion
to move your software to NON-FREE section due to this in
"JL" == Jeff Licquia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"WL" == Walter Landry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
JL> There's a new draft floating around. It also has
JL> problems, but is closer to what we need, and I think the
JL> problems can be worked out. I owe the LaTeX people an
JL> analysis, but have a
After 5 months in Incoming, mindterm was rejected from the US archive
due to possible license incompatabilities. The situation is pretty
unclear so I'd appreciate advice.
Mindterm is a ssh client implemented wholly in java. As a whole it is
licensed under the GPL (later versions were taken proprie
On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 20:32, Aaron Swartz wrote:
> I think it's clear that graphics fonts and documentation are not
> software.
I think it's clear you don't work with fonts or documentation.
Type1 and TrueType fonts are both Turing-complete language.
Non-bitmapped fonts are described as a progra
On Tuesday 27 August 2002 12:17, Joey Hess wrote:
>
> So, they took the DES code from the ssh 1.2.26 source code (note that
> that version of ssh was non-free as a whole; openbsd chose an earlier
> version to fork). They rewrote it in java, but it is still presumably a
> derivative work.
>
> I thin
On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 03:17:19PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> After 5 months in Incoming, mindterm was rejected from the US archive
> due to possible license incompatabilities. The situation is pretty
> unclear so I'd appreciate advice.
[...]
> ssh-1.2.12 --
http://slashdot.org/articles/02/08/27/1626241.shtml
New MP3 License Terms Demand $0.75 Per Decoder
*Posted by chrisd[1] on Tuesday August 27, @03:27PM*
*from the good-thing-ogg-is-up-to-speed dept.*
Götz[2] writes "The licensing terms of Thomson and the Fraunhofer
Gesellscha
On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 02:52:24PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Yeah. I don't think it is distributable, and therefore not DFSG-free.
>
> While the copyright holder can certainly distribute obfuscated source
> and no one can tell him not to, the GNU GPL by which the licensees
> (i.e., we, an
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> One file, DES.java, has the following comment:
>
> /**
> *
> * Copyright (c) 1998,99 by Mindbright Technology AB, Stockholm, Sweden.
> * www.mindbright.se, [EMAIL P
Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Type1 and TrueType fonts are both Turing-complete language.
[...]
> PDF and PS documentation formats are Turing-complete languages,
Hmmm... I'm pretty sure neither PDF nor Type 1 are Turing-complete.
PDF was designed as sort of a predigested version of
> 3. http://www.mp3licensing.com/royalty/software.html
>
> I wonder whether it's time to cease all mp3 players from Debian as well.
FWIW, this licensing change occurred in mid-2001.
Walter Landry wrote:
> What is the license on the java modifications by Mindbright? The
> snippet above doesn't make it clear, but the usual custom is to place
> modifications under the same license as the original. In which case
> mindterm is still undistributable :(
What "java modifications"?
Branden Robinson wrote:
> I wonder if it possible to reconstruct the existing mindterm code base
> from all the known DFSG-free code using a recipe. This recipe could
> then be handed to the FTP admins.
Only if you have an automatic C to java translator program..
An example closer to home for yo
On Tuesday, August 27, 2002, at 02:19 PM, Joe Wreschnig wrote:
I think it's clear that graphics fonts and documentation are not
software.
I think it's clear you don't work with fonts or documentation.
I work with both. I understand these complexities but I didn't really
want to go into them.
On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 07:32:36PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Branden Robinson wrote:
> > I wonder if it possible to reconstruct the existing mindterm code base
> > from all the known DFSG-free code using a recipe. This recipe could
> > then be handed to the FTP admins.
> Only if you have an autom
Please don't Cc me on list mail.
On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 18:34, Aaron Swartz wrote:
> On Tuesday, August 27, 2002, at 02:19 PM, Joe Wreschnig wrote:
> >> I think it's clear that graphics fonts and documentation are not
> >> software.
> > I think it's clear you don't work with fonts or documentatio
Steve Langasek wrote:
> This is what puzzled me about this question. If the old code was C and
> the new code is entirely Java, are there enough recognizable portions of
> the old code left to be able to call mindterm a derivative work of
> libdes? Algorithms are not copyrightable, and there are
On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 10:59:41PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
> I wonder whether it's time to cease all mp3 players from Debian as well.
Heh, I just noticed this on the licensing page:
Note: This license does not cover the right to distribute, broadcast
and/or stream mp3 / mp3PRO encoded
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Walter Landry wrote:
> > What is the license on the java modifications by Mindbright? The
> > snippet above doesn't make it clear, but the usual custom is to place
> > modifications under the same license as the original. In which case
> > mindterm is still
Malcolm Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The code can be de-uglified with a combination of this perl script, and
> indent(1L):
>
> ---
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> $text="";
> while(<>){ $text.=$_; }
> $text =~ s/\/\*[^\*]*;[^\*]*\*\///sg;
> $text =~ s/\/
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