Re: Fwd: figlet license change from Artistic to Clarified Artistic or Artistic 2.0?

2004-11-05 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Glenn Maynard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes This isn't a legal principle, it's an assertion. Why is my grant of copyright license revokable? I just can't find comparisons to "permission to trespass" very convincing. (I've also heard things along the lines of "allow

Re: GPL and command-line libraries

2004-11-05 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 09:53:21PM +0100, Wesley W. Terpstra wrote: > I've heard all sorts of arguements in IRC that drawing the line in a good > way is very hard. I believe that. However, what I want to know is, if this > went to court, would things like the intention and degree of dependency be >

Re: Fwd: figlet license change from Artistic to Clarified Artistic or Artistic 2.0?

2004-11-05 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 09:33:51PM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: > > > However, it seems that a similar possible problem exists with contracts: > > > that they're not binding without consideration. > > > > "Consideration is as much a matter of form as seal." Any benefit to the > > licensee, howev

Re: Fwd: figlet license change from Artistic to Clarified Artistic or Artistic 2.0?

2004-11-05 Thread Francesco Poli
On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 22:54:55 -0500 John Cowan wrote: > You are already distributing code under the MPL license, which is a > contract, in debian-stable main. IIRC, the Mozilla relicensing is underway (though a bit slowly). Debian is therefore waiting for any NPL/MPL-related issues to be solved.