Re: data on the consultants page

2005-11-16 Thread Thomas Huriaux
Andrew Donnellan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (07/11/2005): > Is this spam email spam? I would think that you couldn't really > copyright an email address. And who exactly is this spam from? If they > are requesting something they should be traceable. Also, are other > consultants getting the same? Is it re

Re: data on the consultants page

2005-11-16 Thread Andrew Donnellan
The site seems legit, but that doesn't make spamming legal. To be spam, however, it must be automated. It looks like a site for 'open source' programmers, and Debian clearly qualifies as an 'open source' project (in fact the OSD was based on the DFSG), so it may have been manually sent. I would jus

Re: data on the consultants page

2005-11-16 Thread Benjamin Seidenberg
Andrew Donnellan wrote: The site seems legit, but that doesn't make spamming legal. To be spam, however, it must be automated. It looks like a site for 'open source' programmers, and Debian clearly qualifies as an 'open source' project (in fact the OSD was based on the DFSG), so it may have been

Re: data on the consultants page

2005-11-16 Thread Andrew Donnellan
On 11/17/05, Benjamin Seidenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I thought spam was unsolicited email, automatic or not? > > Cheers, > Benjamin This would mean most email is spam, because most email is unsolicited. However it's not spam because I agree to receive emails. According to the Australia

Releasing SW under GPL

2005-11-16 Thread Svante Signell
Dear Debian legal, I'm about to release some SW I've been working on for some years under a GPL licence and have a few questions: - Which text to include in the files? Is the following OK? * Author: xx yy * Copyright : xx yy, 2000-2005 * License : GNU GPLv2 or later * This program is fr

Re: Releasing SW under GPL

2005-11-16 Thread Andrew Donnellan
> - Which text to include in the files? Is the following OK? > * Author: xx yy > * Copyright : xx yy, 2000-2005 > * License : GNU GPLv2 or later > * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify > * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as

Re: Releasing SW under GPL

2005-11-16 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 12:12:53AM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > I'm about to release some SW I've been working on for some years under a > GPL licence and have a few questions: > > - Which text to include in the files? Is the following OK? This looks good to me. > * Author: xx yy > * Copy

Re: Releasing SW under GPL

2005-11-16 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 06:47:06PM -0500, pryzbyj wrote: > On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 12:12:53AM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > The idea is to make a code audit easy; grep -A4 -B4 -ir copyright can > be done on a fairly large source tree without too much trouble, but > its crazy disappointing if you l

Re: Releasing SW under GPL

2005-11-16 Thread Brian Nelson
Svante Signell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm about to release some SW I've been working on for some years under a > GPL licence and have a few questions: [...] Most of these questions are answered here: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html -- Captain Logic is not steering this tugboa