Re: Berkeley DB curious licensing practice

2002-11-02 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 08:12:24AM -0500, Bennett Todd wrote: > 2002-10-31-16:59:35 Sean 'Shaleh' Perry: > > Mail someone at the FSF and ask their opinion. > FSF? I didn't think they were involved in the Open Source battle, > that they were concentrating on Free Software, a much tighter > classif

Re: ldp-es_20002103-7_i386.changes REJECTED

2002-11-02 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) > It is a grant of permission, which is, in fact, legally called a > "license". > It isn't an "agreement between civil parties", In these parts of the world (Denmark), the legal treatment of such "grants" follow exactly the same rules as for ot

Re: off-topic discussion about permissions and promises

2002-11-02 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Do you have any arguments to support your claim that a licence is a > promise to give permission rather than the permission itself? I think this is just idle word-play. One could also say that it is a promise that the permission will stay valid.

Re: ldp-es_20002103-7_i386.changes REJECTED

2002-11-02 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 10:51:50AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > No it doesn't. > > The original copyright applies to the original work. > > The translation's copyright applies to the translation. > > I'm afraid y

Re: ldp-es_20002103-7_i386.changes REJECTED

2002-11-02 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 02:30:33PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 10:51:50AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > No it doesn't. > > > The original copyright applies to the original work. > > > T

Re: click-through EULA vs DFSG

2002-11-02 Thread Nick Phillips
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 04:50:30PM -0800, Mark Rafn wrote: > I haven't been paying much attention to the discussion, but the current > download page (http://www.unrealircd.com/downloads.php) includes: > > IF THIS SOFTWARE WAS DOWNLOADED FROM A LOCATION OTHER THAN THIS WEBSITE > AND THROUGH THE

Re: click-through EULA vs DFSG

2002-11-02 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 12:00:34PM +1300, Nick Phillips wrote: > > IF THIS SOFTWARE WAS DOWNLOADED FROM A LOCATION OTHER THAN THIS WEBSITE ^^ > > AND THROUGH THE STANDARD DOWNLOAD URL OR WAS DOWNLOADED USING A METHOD TO