Re: Anti-DMCA clause (was Re: GPL v3 Draft

2006-01-23 Thread Alexander Terekhov
On 1/23/06, Walter Landry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > A legitimate privacy device may function very much like DRM. Consider > classified environments, where you really don't want people to copy > things around willy-nilly. Making it hard to copy information won't > eliminate leaks, but it

Re: Bug#349279: tailor: _process.py seems under non-GPL license

2006-01-23 Thread Josh Triplett
Osamu Aoki wrote: > Thanks for saving lost soul. > > On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 12:58:28AM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: >>This clause is universally interpreted to mean that the permission is >>granted and you don't need to pay a fee to get that permission; in other >>words, "for any purpose and witho

Re: STIX Font License

2006-01-23 Thread Marco d'Itri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I don't agree that this clause is DFSG-free. >It says that the name of an augmented font cannot *include* the term >STIX or *any similar* term. >That is significantly broader than what is allowed by DFGS#4, which >states (in part): Your understanding of the DFSG is well b

Re: Distributing GPL software.

2006-01-23 Thread Raul Miller
On 1/13/06, Alexander Terekhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not really. I expect that any court will ignore Moglen's drivel > like the Judge Saris did in the MySQL case and will interpret > the GPL as a contract (and in this case as a breach of contractual > covenant to forbear from the exercise of

Re: Distributing GPL software.

2006-01-23 Thread Alexander Terekhov
On 1/23/06, Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/13/06, Alexander Terekhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Not really. I expect that any court will ignore Moglen's drivel > > like the Judge Saris did in the MySQL case and will interpret > > the GPL as a contract (and in this case as a breac

Re: Distributing GPL software.

2006-01-23 Thread Alexander Terekhov
On 1/23/06, Alexander Terekhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/23/06, Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 1/13/06, Alexander Terekhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Not really. I expect that any court will ignore Moglen's drivel > > > like the Judge Saris did in the MySQL case and wil

GR proposal: GFDL with no Invariant Sections is free

2006-01-23 Thread Fabian Fagerholm
[ Bcc'ed to -project, -devel and -legal, any further discussion and/or seconds on -vote, please. ] After reading all the recent posts about the GFDL on debian-vote, I hereby propose the following General Resolution and ask for seconds. --8<-- The Debian Project asserts that Works licensed under

Re: Distributing GPL software.

2006-01-23 Thread Raul Miller
On 1/23/06, Alexander Terekhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://pacer.mad.uscourts.gov/dc/opinions/saris/pdf/progress%20software.pdf > "With respect to the General Public License ("GPL"), MySQL has not > demonstrated a substantial likelihood of success on the merits or > irreparable harm. Affida

Re: Distributing GPL software.

2006-01-23 Thread Alexander Terekhov
Plonk. regards, alexander.

Re: GR proposal: GFDL with no Invariant Sections is free

2006-01-23 Thread olive
Fabian Fagerholm wrote: [ Bcc'ed to -project, -devel and -legal, any further discussion and/or seconds on -vote, please. ] After reading all the recent posts about the GFDL on debian-vote, I hereby propose the following General Resolution and ask for seconds. --8<-- The Debian Project asserts t

Re: GR proposal: GFDL with no Invariant Sections is free

2006-01-23 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 10:52:56AM +0400, olive wrote: > Fabian Fagerholm wrote: > >Works licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License, version 1.2, as > >published by the Free Software Foundation (GNU FDL), are free in > >accordance with the Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG), if and only