Hi Steve, hi d-legal!
On 2004-03-08 12:59 -0600, Steve Langasek wrote:
> [CC:ed to debian-legal, for sanity checking]
Sounds reasonable ;-)
> If the website is down, how would anyone be able to verify that your
> .orig.tar.gz is pristine source, either?
I guess only by comparing it to the tar
Don Armstrong wrote:
> It is defined somewhere.
>
> See http://people.debian.org/~bap/dfsg-faq.html question 8.
Do you think we should perhaps try to get a link from
http://www.debian.org/devel to this (and perhaps the various other
documents which have been assembled, such as Manoj's huge page o
Mahesh T. Pai wrote:
> Arvind Autar said on Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 09:41:36PM +0100,:
>
> > > library is licensed under the Ada Community License. I already found
> > > a thread which talks about whether it's allowed or not.
> >
> > That thread is not clear to me.
>
> The Ada Community Licens
selussos wrote:
> That possibly could be your own _personal_ prejudice which is
> understandable but I think that U.S. Copyright is fairly well
> deployed throughout this world and is internationally recognized.
Perhaps you might not understand the way international copyright works; I
will expla
I'm going to try to be clear about where debian-legal is coming from.
We've gotten a lot more careful about licenses in recent years after being
burned several times by surprising license interpretations. And by people
trying to do odd, non-free things with their copyright licenses (usually
peo
On Tue, 09 Mar 2004, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> Don Armstrong wrote:
> > It is defined somewhere.
> >
> > See http://people.debian.org/~bap/dfsg-faq.html question 8.
>
> Do you think we should perhaps try to get a link from
> http://www.debian.org/devel to this (and perhaps the various other
> doc
Siggy Brentrup wrote:
> [Please Cc me on replies since I'm not subscribed to d-legal]
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm adopting the spamprobe package which is under the QPL (Qt public
> license). The package has a broken configure.in script that results
> in linking against libdb3.so even when libdb4.2-dev is
* Don Armstrong ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040309 16:40]:
> Yeah, what would probably be best is to setup a
> http://www.debian.org/licenses or http://www.debian.org/legal/ to both
> archive our license decisions and provide a place to stick the FAQ and
> links to relevant decisions|commentary.
licenses
Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> Mahesh T. Pai wrote:
>> The Ada Community License
>>
>> Copyright(C) 1997 David G. Weller
>>
>> Permission to redistribute in unmodified form is granted,
>> all other rights reserved.
>
> This a
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 08:59:52AM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> Mahesh T. Pai wrote:
> > d) Make other distribution arrangements with the Copyright
> > Holder.
> Not useful for Debian unless we do so. ;-)
You and I both know that Debian cannot make local distribut
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 07:26:01PM -0500, Simon Law wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 08:59:52AM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> > Mahesh T. Pai wrote:
> > > d) Make other distribution arrangements with the Copyright
> > > Holder.
> > Not useful for Debian unless we do so. ;-)
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