Re: Bug#281672: marked as done (autoconf: non-free documentation)

2004-11-26 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Don Armstrong wrote: I think we've been here before, done that, and have sold off all of the t-shirts to help finance the non-existant black helicopters. Of course there are no black helicopters, -legal helicopters are actually midnight blue ;-)

Re: Bug#281672: marked as done (autoconf: non-free documentation)

2004-11-26 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 05:40:02AM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > Don Armstrong wrote: > > >I think we've been here before, done that, and have sold off all of > >the t-shirts to help finance the non-existant black helicopters. > > Of course there are no black helicopters, -legal helicopters

kissfft

2004-11-26 Thread Paul Brossier
Hi all, Kissfft (http://kissfft.sf.net) ships with a modified BSD license that says: /* Copyright (c) 2003-2004, Mark Borgerding All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

Re: kissfft

2004-11-26 Thread Josh Triplett
Paul Brossier wrote: > Kissfft (http://kissfft.sf.net) ships with a modified BSD license > that says: > > /* > Copyright (c) 2003-2004, Mark Borgerding > > All rights reserved. > > Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or > without modification, are permitted provided that the

Re: kissfft

2004-11-26 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 10:56:14AM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: > The text of this license is nearly identical to that in > /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD, modulo the different copyright holder > and the corresponding changes in the third clause and warranty > disclaimer. Oddly, it seems that "name

Re: kissfft

2004-11-26 Thread Josh Triplett
Glenn Maynard wrote: > On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 10:56:14AM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: >>The text of this license is nearly identical to that in >>/usr/share/common-licenses/BSD, modulo the different copyright holder >>and the corresponding changes in the third clause and warranty >>disclaimer. Odd

Common-licenses [was: Re: kissfft]

2004-11-26 Thread Francesco Poli
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 14:22:56 -0800 Josh Triplett wrote: > Agreed. For the same reason, I wonder why one particular variant > (3-clause, copyright "The Regents of the University of California") of > the BSD license is included in /usr/share/common-licenses, while the > standard MIT license is not.

Re: GPL and command-line libraries

2004-11-26 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Wesley W. Terpstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >What I am concerned about is the following scenario: > >Mr. John Wontshare writes a streaming multicast client. >To deal with packet loss, he uses my error-correcting library. >Without my library, Mr. Wontshare's client can't work at all. That stateme

Re: GPL and command-line libraries

2004-11-26 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Nathanael Nerode wrote: If your library has a well-specified API, anyone could make a library with the same API, and his client could use that. Under those circumstances, his client is not a derivative work of your library (although it may be a derivative work of the *API and other specificatio