Re: eawpats license [was: Timidity-patches eek]

2002-09-11 Thread J.B. Nicholson-Owens
In addition to David Given's warning, which I agree with and I find reason enough to not consider eawpats DFSG-free, I add the following. Andrew Suffield quoted the license for eawpats: > So, basicly[sic] you can not use the analog drums or the pistol files in any > commercial work. This is out o

Re: eawpats license [was: Timidity-patches eek]

2002-09-11 Thread Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS
J.B. Nicholson-Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I release these patches as "fameware". If you use them in any non-private > > way, give me credit. These patches are not to be sold for profit (heaven > > forbid). They were free when I got them and so they shall remain. > > Here's where my problem

Re: Debian registered by a trade as TM in Spain!

2002-09-11 Thread Ricardo Javier Cardenes Medina
On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 10:59:45AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > > The barrapunto article makes it clear that the academy (hmm, perhaps > "trade school" is better English?) is not holding this trademark for the > benefit of the Debian community. academy is right: academy n 1: a seconda

License issue with freeswan (Eric Young's libdes)

2002-09-11 Thread Rene Mayrhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, The reason why freeswan can currently not go into main is an issue with some code license that is bundled with it. I am struggling with this for quite some time now and at the moment I need some help to clarify it Freeswan (the user spa

Re: License issue with freeswan (Eric Young's libdes)

2002-09-11 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 13:23:28 +0200, Rene Mayrhofer wrote: > Freeswan upstream developers are currently thinking of switch to openssl. > I already pointed out to them that this might need a change in their own > (GPL) license statement so that linking to openssl is explicitly allowed. Perhaps y

Re: License issue with freeswan (Eric Young's libdes)

2002-09-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 01:23:28PM +0200, Rene Mayrhofer wrote: > The reason why freeswan can currently not go into main is an issue with some > code license that is bundled with it. I am struggling with this for quite > some time now and at the moment I need some help to clarify it > Frees

Re: License issue with freeswan (Eric Young's libdes)

2002-09-11 Thread Rene Mayrhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Langasek wrote: | Which parts of freeswan link against libdes? According to | /usr/share/doc/freeswan/copyright, some parts are LGPL. Do we know for | sure that libdes+GPL is happening? No, not for sure. However, since the copyright situation

Re: License issue with freeswan (Eric Young's libdes)

2002-09-11 Thread Joey Hess
Rene Mayrhofer wrote: > Freeswan (the user space daemon and the kernel module) needs Eric Young's > libdes to work. I know from researching for mindterm that version 3.06 of Eric Young's libdes (from 1993) was licensed under the GPL. I don't know how much the libdes library has changed since then