On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 09:50:13PM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
> i am going to try to take a stab at it:
>
> hardware: physical computing devices
> software: logical information stored by hardware devices that can be
> used for computation.
> this allows us to break software into three (o
On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 05:44:19PM +0200, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker wrote:
> Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I sometimes read in Debian Weekly News about discussions on debian-legal
> > about problems with packaging perl modules for Debian because of the
> > vagueness of the licens
Nick Phillips wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 09:50:13PM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
%< snip of definitions >%
> Pretty good. I would have tried to phrase it slightly differently, but you
> have hit the nail on the head.
>
> If it's represented essentially as a sequence of 1s and 0s in a
Jakob Bohm, on 2003-08-02, 14:52, you wrote:
> Glad to help out
Matthew Palmer, on 2003-08-03, 10:06, you wrote:
> In short, I see nothing DFSG-non-free in the licence.
Thank you both for your views,
Joerg
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Jakob Bohm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
>modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. Either Perl
>version 5.8.3 or, at your option, any later version you may
>have available.
The GPL refers to the GPL "as published by the
* Tore Anderson
>I would like to have the list members' opinion on the following
> license, which is about to be applied to the data files of an
> old adventure game:
>
> ~~~
> Preamble:
>Basically, give this game away, share it with your friends.
> Don't remove this Readme, or
Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb/wrote:
> I'd gather that most of -legal isn't worried about the copyright
> statement, license, or author's statement (which is the same thing as
> the copyright statement) being immutable. Most of those can't be
> modified under the applicable copyright la
Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb/wrote:
> I'd gather that most of -legal isn't worried about the copyright
> statement, license, or author's statement (which is the same thing as
> the copyright statement) being immutable. Most of those can't be
> modified under the applicable copyright l
On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 01:33:44PM +0100, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote:
> Jakob Bohm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> >This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
> >modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. Either Perl
> >version 5.8.3 or, at your option, any later versi
John Goerzen wrote:
> 1. Would removing the manual for Emacs, libc, or other important GNU
>software benefit our users?
Yep. I'm very unhappy with having non-free software (and software means
0s and 1s -- so nearly everything Debian distributes except the
physical CDs) in Debian; as a user
On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 11:36, Claus Färber wrote:
> Of course, someone can add another invariant section to the manual. But
> this is actually a licence change, possibly making the new version of
> the manual non-free (although it still uses the GFDL as a template for
> its licence). This prob
On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 08:05, Tore Anderson wrote:
> As a few has pointed out, this does not allow for modifying and
> redistributing modified versions. I believe the only chance I have
> to make the copyright holder accept such a clause, would be through
> making it pass DFSG clause 4.
>
>
* Joe Wreschnig
> DFSG #4 only applies to source code; is there a concept of a
> "binary" for this game? If so, it won't pass #4 unless modified
> binaries may be distributed.
No, this is the 'source code', at least in the way the GPL defines
it (preferred form of modification). You can t
On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 01:24:03PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 21:50:13 -0700, John H Robinson, IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> said:
>
> > Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> >> On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 16:38:43 -0700, John H Robinson, IV
> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> >>
> >> > as a mostly
Sergey V. Spiridonov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What about
...not cutting out all the definition alternatives that don't support
your position?
The following has little to do with Debian, but it is related to how
documentation should be licensed, which was discussed here recently.
I was recently asked to suggest a licence for some course material
(explanations, exercises, etc) that would allow people to adapt and
reuse the material and to
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jakob Bohm wrote:
> Here is my classification, which handles this better:
>
> A piece of information, whether in analog, digital or other
> form, is a program if it is intended to directly control the
> actions of a computer, other than by simply holding a pure
> de
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