Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 05:46:07PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
>>This is clearly not appropriate; it is not "perfectly reasonable" to
>>install a driver package without the firmware, any more than it is
>>reasonable to install a dynamically-linked binary without its shared
>>li
Note: I've left Anthony Youngman's email address in the headers, but I
seem to have a local problem where email to Anthony bounces. [I can work
around that, using telnet, but it's a pain.] > > > > I strongly
suggest that you read the following two web pages: > >
http://easyco.com/initiative/openqm
On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 08:04:31AM +0100, Anthony Youngman wrote:
> Sorry for lookout mangling my cut-n-paste - this isn't quite a proper
> reply ...
And the guy who admins this system claims I should be able to
email you now... so hopefully you won't have to do much more of
that.
> Did you look
On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 06:09:29AM -0400, I wrote:
> Instead, it's pointing out that you can't prohibit employees [for
> example, ad subsidiaries] from distributing it to your competitors or
Er, I meant "at", not "ad".
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Raul
On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 11:23:11AM +0100, Anthony Youngman wrote:
> But as I see it, they (QM) are adding an extra restriction, as
> proscribed by the GPL (clauses 6 and 7).
>
> "If you distribute to subsidiaries, you may not stop them distributing
> to the world". But the GPL explicitly recognise
Well, I'm using two different email addresses and computer systems -
it's my home system that's subscribed to Debian Legal, and I was
emailing from my work system ...
But as I see it, they (QM) are adding an extra restriction, as
proscribed by the GPL (clauses 6 and 7).
"If you distribute to subs
On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 04:59:37PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > True enough, but as processors get faster, so does bandwidth.
> > I expect that ultimately, it will always need to be as fast as possible.
>
> Possibly; however, I think bandwidth grows far slower than CPU speed and
> overall syste
On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 11:23:11AM +0100, Anthony Youngman wrote: > But
as I see it, they (QM) are adding an extra restriction, as > proscribed
by the GPL (clauses 6 and 7). > > "If you distribute to subsidiaries,
you may not stop them distributing > to the world". But the GPL
explicitly recognises
Hello.
Navigating in the xchat site (debian package xchat),
I found in http://www.xchat.org/windows/ these sentences:
> Q. Has the license for X-Chat changed?
> A. The Windows version is shareware, however, you may still
> download the source code, released under the G.P.L.
> You may use X-Cha
On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 01:51:29PM +0100, Anthony Youngman wrote:
> Sorry, my goof. I shouldn't be sloppy. It's the FSF faq. "Is making and
> using multiple copies within one organization or company "distribution"?
> <> ". As I read that, it's simply saying that the "you" in the FAQ can
> be a com
On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 04:59:37PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> Wesley W. Terpstra wrote:
> > True enough, but as processors get faster, so does bandwidth.
> > I expect that ultimately, it will always need to be as fast as possible.
>
> Possibly; however, I think bandwidth grows far slower than C
Joel Baker wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 04:59:37PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
>
>>Wesley W. Terpstra wrote:
>>
>>>True enough, but as processors get faster, so does bandwidth.
>>>I expect that ultimately, it will always need to be as fast as possible.
>>
>>Possibly; however, I think bandwidth
On Wednesday 20 October 2004 08:19 am, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Navigating in the xchat site (debian package xchat),
>
> I found in http://www.xchat.org/windows/ these sentences:
> > Q. Has the license for X-Chat changed?
> > A. The Windows version is shareware, however, you may
Hi,
Am Mittwoch, den 20.10.2004, 16:36 -0500 schrieb John Goerzen:
> Now, if the registration/validation logic is not part of those GPL'd
> sources, then we have a problem.
If it only applies to the windows sources/binary, we don't have a
problem. If anybody has a problem, then those who contrib
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Given that the entire purpose of the driver is to actually *drive a
>device*, and that it can't do that at all without the firmware, then the
No, apparently you do not understand how the driver, hardware and
firmware interact. The driver is fully functional as is: the fir
John Goerzen writes:
> On Wednesday 20 October 2004 08:19 am, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > Navigating in the xchat site (debian package xchat),
> >
> > I found in http://www.xchat.org/windows/ these sentences:
> > > Q. Has the license for X-Chat changed?
> > > A. The Windows v
On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >Given that the entire purpose of the driver is to actually *drive a
> >device*, and that it can't do that at all without the firmware, then the
> No, apparently you do not understand how the driver, hardware and
> firmware inter
On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 07:05:08 +0200 Arnoud Engelfriet wrote:
> > > When accepting the terms
> > > of the GPL, I also must give up certain rights about warranties
> > > that I normally expect to have.
> >
> > I didn't see that way: I saw the disclaimer of warranty as a
> > declaration(valid even if
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 09:09:17 -0400 Raul Miller wrote:
> However, let's take AbiWord as an example. We've been told that we do
> not have a license to use "AbiWord" on derivative works. We're
> clearly not required to retain "AbiWord" on those works.
It seems correct.
>
> The question is: if w
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 14:00:28 -0300 Carlos Laviola wrote:
> Still haven't subscribed, but I'm reading the archives periodically.
It's mandatory, you know. It's just easier to manage...
> I'm in the middle of a lot of stuff -- just gave a talk about Debian
> at the university's 2nd annual week on
On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 23:48:06 -0400 Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote:
> You can't quite change the name of the work using a patch. You always
> have to distribute the original, which includes its name. If Abiword
> were under a patch-clause license, Debian'd have to distribute
> software which said "Th
On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 11:55:30PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote:
> But is the original unpurged work DFSG-free?
I'm not sure that's the right question.
Remember, we interpret the DFSG based on the spirit of the rules, rather
than the letter.
I think the right question is: how should we handle thi
On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 11:39:56PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote:
> > Still haven't subscribed, but I'm reading the archives periodically.
>
> It's mandatory, you know. It's just easier to manage...
Huh? Subscribing to debian-legal isn't mandatory.
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Glenn Maynard
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