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Interesting thread, I'm going to step through a few points
that caught my eye--hope they may be useful clarific
Hello James Miller,
> I think I had compiled a user friendly index comparing some various
> jurisdictions a couple years ago I could dig up if it's useful to you
> guys.
I have also been following this discussion with interest. I'm attempting
to understand the copyright laws of the various jurisd
Anthony Towns writes:
> On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 09:09:03AM -0400, Jeremy Hankins wrote:
>> Anthony Towns writes:
>> > DFSG-free means that it can be included in Debian, maintained by our
>> > maintainers and used by our users.
>> Now you're being silly. Surely you're not proposing that as an
>>
On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 11:36:28PM -0400, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> I pulled it out of my files and reread it; the FSF's side of the
> agreement is a lot weaker than I remembered. The actual text is
[...]
> Not one word about redistribution of modifications. I don't think
> I have a leg to stand on
Thank you for your interest in the Debian Project!
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On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 07:34:26PM +0100, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote:
> Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > "Substantial modifications are permitted, and may be distributed, at
> > which point the modifier must either pay to ABC Software Inc the sum
> > of USD 1,000 for each occurren
On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 11:20:33AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 09:14:30AM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote:
> > Scripsit Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 04:53:03PM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote:
> > > > Scripsit Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PRO
On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 04:00:43PM -0500, Elizabeth Barham wrote:
>But, however, I have not had seen anything in writing specifically
> stating that the data is public domain and I received no reply when I
> asked them the license of the data via the email address on the
> above-cited webpage.
On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 09:40:46PM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-05-08 at 20:17, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
>
> > They are also not enforceable in the US.
>
> Can you please provide a citation for this? I've never been able to come
> up with one.
I found one case that *might*
Branden writes:
> United States Code, Title 17, Chapter 1:
[ ...]
> If you have good reason to believe that the data in question was
> prepared by the U.S. government, then the material cannot be
> copyrighted.
>
> If you do make such a determination, I would go ahead and target the
> package
On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 11:43:52AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> (a) [...] Commercial speech that is not false or deceptive and does not
> concern unlawful activities may be restricted only in the service of a
> substantial governmental interest, and only through means that directly
> advance th
Anthony DeRobertis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, 2003-05-08 at 20:17, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
>
> > They are also not enforceable in the US.
>
> Can you please provide a citation for this? I've never been able to come
> up with one.
This is what I know from Eben Moglen; I would ask
> > > They are also not enforceable in the US.
> >
> > Can you please provide a citation for this? I've never been able to come
> > up with one.
>
> This is what I know from Eben Moglen; I would ask him if he can give
> you more exact citations. Also maybe look at the briefs that AT&T
> filed in
On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 02:25:38PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
> On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 11:43:52AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > (a) [...] Commercial speech that is not false or deceptive and does not
> > concern unlawful activities may be restricted only in the service of a
> > substantial go
On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 10:19:45AM -0500, Debian Press Team wrote:
> Thank you for your interest in the Debian Project!
Debian Press Team,
Please don't spam the Debian Legal Team.
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On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 11:17:40AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/debian-legal-200304/msg00294.html
>
> While I agree with that post in general, I don't think it's germane to
> the case of PHP-Nuke. The PHP-Nuke author claims that the requirement
> to d
On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 11:30:15AM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote:
> > > All the XML scores in the world will not allow me to
> > > recreate a particular sound recording (made with real live musicians,
> > > in the case it contains music). Therefore, an XML score is not
> > > source.
> > All the C co
On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 07:02:18AM -0400, Jeremy Hankins wrote:
> I would be interested in an answer to the question in my last message,
> namely how to distinguish between this ABC-DFL and licenses that
> require other sorts of consideration before modification.
The issue is what it costs you,
Greg Pomerantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > > They are also not enforceable in the US.
> > >
> > > Can you please provide a citation for this? I've never been able to come
> > > up with one.
> >
> > This is what I know from Eben Moglen; I would ask him if he can give
> > you more exact cita
John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I would not be surprised to have a court hold that "restricted" in this
> instance applies solely to government restrictions, and that contractual
> restrictions (such as agreeing to a license) are still permissible, since
> nobody forced the company to a
> In other words, under the logic of the BSD advertising clause, the
> Regents of University of California could also compel the inclusion
> of certain language in advertising flyers distributed by bookstores,
> the Book-of-the-Month Club, and so forth, since the University of
> California also has
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