legal status of faac, xvid

2005-09-07 Thread seven sins
hi, i am looking for information on how the debian teams views legal status of faac and xvid. work for a company where we use debian, folks on the research team want to do use these for some reason. before i install these i wanted to check on the legal status for there quite a bit of messages on

Re: legal status of faac, xvid

2005-09-07 Thread MJ Ray
seven sins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i am looking for information on how the debian teams > views legal status of faac and xvid. [...] I can't see either package is in debian. I think the only public information on the *teams*' views (as opposed to individuals on debian-legal) is usually the

Re: legal status of faac, xvid

2005-09-07 Thread seven sins
Hi, Thank you for the links. I shall pursue them. The company is based in US. Really appreciate the info. regards shiva. --- MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > seven sins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i am looking for information on how the debian > teams > > views legal status of faac and x

Re: [Fwd: Re: [osol-discuss] Debian with OpenSolaris: a broken dream]

2005-09-07 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 06:33:17PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Alvaro Lopez Ortega: > > > Florian Weimer wrote: > > > >>> Some days ago I asked about the viability the idea of creating a new > >>> architecture of Debian using the OpenSolaris stack. > >> > >> Just the kernel or libc as well?

Re: STIX fonts for free mathematics - comments needed on draft license

2005-09-07 Thread Simos Xenitellis
Thanks Steve for bringing up again the issue of the Stixfonts! I have sent them my feedback on the issue of the modification/removal of the base set of glyphs, though I do not know if anything else needs changing. You may read here a summary of the discussion: http://lists.debian.org/debian-l

GPL, yet again. (The kernel is a lot like a shared library)

2005-09-07 Thread Joe Smith
While I would like to belive that the FSF knew exactly what they were doing, I am not certain. It is generally belived that the GPL 'derivative' clauses may actually be upheld in the case of static libraries. The fact that linking the .o's of the library directly with your program is equivelen

Re: GPL, yet again. (The kernel is a lot like a shared library)

2005-09-07 Thread Mark Rafn
On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Joe Smith wrote: It is generally belived that the GPL 'derivative' clauses may actually be upheld in the case of static libraries. The fact that linking the .o's of the library directly with your program is equivelent to linking the library with the object files of your pro

Re: GPL, yet again. (The kernel is a lot like a shared library)

2005-09-07 Thread Sean Kellogg
On Wednesday 07 September 2005 03:50 pm, Joe Smith wrote: > If that statement is true and if it does not qualify as a licence > exception, then I think Linus and the KernelDev team has been pretty consistent that they consider it their interpretation of the GPL as applied to their software. As

Re: GPL, yet again. (The kernel is a lot like a shared library)

2005-09-07 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 04:08:51PM -0700, Mark Rafn wrote: > On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Joe Smith wrote: > > >It is generally belived that the GPL 'derivative' clauses may actually be > >upheld in the case of static libraries. The fact that linking the .o's of > >the library directly with your program