Re: cc65 licensing (was: cc65 license check -- main or non-free?)

2004-06-25 Thread Benjamin Cutler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ullrich von Bassewitz wrote: | There is no need to reference a license in a source file for it to be valid. | Source code is copyrighted with or without referencing a license in the files | itself. Apart from that, the old license is part of the compi

Apple's APSL 2.0 " Debian Free Software Guidelines"-compliant?

2004-06-25 Thread Ryan Rasmussen
Is the following compliant with Debian's Free Software Guidelines? --- APPLE PUBLIC SOURCE LICENSE Version 2.0 - August 6, 2003 Please read this License carefully before downloading this software. By downloading or using this softwa

scummvm dependent games: non-free?

2004-06-25 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
Hi! [Please Cc: me on replies, I'm not subscribed to this list -- OTOH I'll watch the archive for answers anyway] I wonder why the games "Beneath a Steel Sky" and "Flight of the Amazon Queen" are in main. To me the license is quite clearly non-free, because its for non-commercial use on

Re: cc65 licensing (was: cc65 license check -- main or non-free?)

2004-06-25 Thread Ullrich von Bassewitz
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 02:17:29AM -0600, Benjamin Cutler wrote: > True, but the old license says 'any file that references this license', and > none do, which makes figuring that out non-obvious just from looking at that > part of the source tree. At first glance it looks like all the code is > y

Re: Apple's APSL 2.0 " Debian Free Software Guidelines"-compliant?

2004-06-25 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 04:32:01AM -0500, Ryan Rasmussen wrote: > Is the following compliant with Debian's Free Software Guidelines? No. > 12.1 Termination. This License and the rights granted hereunder will > terminate: > (c) automatically without notice from Apple if You, at any time during >

Re: Apple's APSL 2.0

2004-06-25 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-06-25 10:32:01 +0100 Ryan Rasmussen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is the following compliant with Debian's Free Software Guidelines? This question doesn't really make sense as phrased, IMO. "We provide the guidelines that we use to determine if a work is "free" in the document entitled

Re: scummvm dependent games: non-free?

2004-06-25 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Fr, den 25.06.2004 schrieb Gerfried Fuchs um 12:11: > 3) You may not charge a fee for the game itself. This includes > reselling the game as an individual item. > > Doesn't this violate point 1 of the DFSG? AFAIK it is ok, as long as it is allowed to distribute it as part of something

Re: cc65 licensing

2004-06-25 Thread Benjamin Cutler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ullrich von Bassewitz wrote: | Huh? The docs and the web page do *clearly* state that this is not the case. | The web page for example says: | | Until today, I have rewritten large parts of the compiler, all of the | library, completely replaced t

Re: cc65 licensing

2004-06-25 Thread Ullrich von Bassewitz
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 05:16:27AM -0600, Benjamin Cutler wrote: > | What exactly is unclear about this information? > > That it's not in the source files themselves. I've stated that twice: No conclusion at all can be drawn from the fact that a source file doesn't contain or reference a license.

Re: cc65 licensing

2004-06-25 Thread Michael Poole
Ullrich von Bassewitz writes: > On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 05:16:27AM -0600, Benjamin Cutler wrote: >> | What exactly is unclear about this information? >> >> That it's not in the source files themselves. > > I've stated that twice: No conclusion at all can be drawn from the fact that a > source file

Re: cc65 licensing

2004-06-25 Thread Ullrich von Bassewitz
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 08:58:04AM -0400, Michael Poole wrote: > That isn't meaningful: No one argues whether the source is > copyrighted. The question is what license applies. But it's not me asking this question, it's you. I have always stated that the old license is still in effect for parts

Re: scummvm dependent games: non-free?

2004-06-25 Thread jens persson
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 01:13:10PM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote: > > At least the splash screen of "Flight of the Amazon Queen" when you > > start it is misleading at large, too: > > > > Unauthorized copying, reproduction, adoption, rental, public > > performance, broadcast or other exploita

Re: cc65 licensing

2004-06-25 Thread Michael Poole
Ullrich von Bassewitz writes: >> The usual presumption is that someone who distributes the code does so >> (a) as the original author, (b) in accordance with some license, or >> (c) because the code is in the public domain. If you distribute code, >> it is your responsibility that licenses on it

Re: cc65 licensing

2004-06-25 Thread Ullrich von Bassewitz
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 09:59:14AM -0400, Michael Poole wrote: > There is an important difference between distributing and > redistributing: Only the author can be the original distributor, so he > may give the code to anyone he wishes. All redistributors have to > have license from the original

Re: cc65 licensing

2004-06-25 Thread mdpoole
Ullrich von Bassewitz writes: > You are really making me upset. As you can see from Benjamin Cutlers attempts > to find old code in the current sources, I could have easily claimed that all > code was written by me - no one would have noticed. I haven't done that. In > fact, I have marked new and

Re: cc65 licensing

2004-06-25 Thread Ullrich von Bassewitz
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 11:45:26AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Those four files you say have JRD's code in them, though, what is in > their headers? You are really trying, aren't you? There is my name in three of the files. This is because I created the files at the given date by copying c

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Re: scummvm dependent games: non-free?

2004-06-25 Thread Josh Triplett
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 jens persson wrote: > Hello, > > What I found strange and RC, (but haven't acted upon yet) is that I > could not find any source. the upstream package just contains binary > file (queen.1c for Flight of the Amazon Queen) that is copied into the > packa

Re: cc65 licensing

2004-06-25 Thread Michael Poole
Ullrich von Bassewitz writes: > After downloading the sources, you claim that the all compiler sources refer > to the new license. I prove this wrong. Now you're keeping up with some more > claims, that just show that you didn't look at the original JRD sources. I'm > maintaining my original asser

Re: cc65 licensing

2004-06-25 Thread MJ Ray
Dear subset of debian-legal contributors, Please try to be a bit more constructive when working with upstream developers. The debian developer reference and manuals generally encourage *co-ordination* with upstream. Nothing that gets this response: On 2004-06-25 16:07:40 +0100 Ullrich von Ba

Re: Draft Summary: MPL is not DFSG free

2004-06-25 Thread Lex Spoon
Brian Thomas Sniffen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Second, while acceptance alone does not obligate anything of you, some > > obligations do kick in if you try to use some of the rights you have > > been granted. For example, if you take the option to distribute > > binaries of modifications and

Re: cc65 licensing

2004-06-25 Thread Benjamin Cutler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ullrich von Bassewitz wrote: | | Correction: You don't want to understand that. It can be easily seen from the | fact that you accused me of "intentional muddling with licenses" before even | looking at the source code, that it is not your intention t

Re: Apple's APSL 2.0 " Debian Free Software Guidelines"-compliant?

2004-06-25 Thread Jim Marhaus
Ryan wrote: [snip] > 1.4 "Externally Deploy" means: (a) to sublicense, distribute or > otherwise make Covered Code available, directly or indirectly, to > anyone other than You; and/or (b) to use Covered Code, alone or as > part of a Larger Work, in any way to provide a service, including but > no

Re: Draft Summary: MPL is not DFSG free

2004-06-25 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-06-25 17:00:42 +0100 Lex Spoon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] what we are usually talking about on debian-legal are the agreements, not the licenses granted in those agreements. Maybe this is indicative of a general topic drift in this list?

Re: Visualboy Advance question.

2004-06-25 Thread Walter Landry
Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 15:30, Walter Landry wrote: > > Evan Prodromou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 19:02, Josh Triplett wrote: > > > > > > > While I agree that it is not necessarily required that a Free package > > > > Depend on s