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

2006-02-01 Thread Pavel Šimerda
On 2006-01-31 00:40, Francesco Poli wrote: > On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 16:34:25 -0500 Nathanael Nerode wrote: > > "olive" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I personnaly think that Debian would do better to defend free > > > software if > > > > there were in accordance to the FSF. > > > > I personally th

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

2006-02-01 Thread olive
Nathanael Nerode wrote: "olive" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I personnaly think that Debian would do better to defend free software if there were in accordance to the FSF. I personally think that the FSF would do much, much better at defending free software if they operated in accordance with

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

2006-02-01 Thread Yorick Cool
On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 04:22:01PM +0400, olive wrote: olive> Nathanael Nerode wrote: olive> >"olive" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: olive> > olive> >>I personnaly think that Debian would do better to defend free software if olive> > olive> >there were in accordance to the FSF. olive> > olive> >I per

Re: Trademark policy for packages?

2006-02-01 Thread Simon Josefsson
Glenn Maynard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 11:28:54PM +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote: >>Project Athena, Athena, Athena MUSE, Discuss, Hesiod, Kerberos, >>Moira, and Zephyr are trademarks of the Massachusetts Institute of >>Technology (MIT). No commercial use of

Re: Trademark policy for packages?

2006-02-01 Thread Simon Josefsson
Henning Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Scripsit Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> I'm packaging Shishi, a Kerberos implementation, for Debian. The term >> "Kerberos" is a trademark held by MIT, according to RFC 1510: > ... >> My question is: What is Debian's policy on trademarks for

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

2006-02-01 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Florian Weimer wrote: > * Nathanael Nerode: > > >>Hrrm. We need a different clause then. >> >>"No program licensed under this License, which accesses a work, shall require >>the authority of the copyright owner for that work, in order to gain access >>to that work. Accordingly, no program lic

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

2006-02-01 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 01:45:49PM +0100, Yorick Cool wrote: > Without taking a stance on the GFDL issue, I agree with the fact that > Debian should be cautious not to go to far in it's assessment of > licenses. In my view, a license can be free and yet not ideal, the two > are different. And I fee

Re: Trademark policy for packages?

2006-02-01 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Henning Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does the use of a trademark word to refer unambiguously to a specific > technical protocol in package descriptions and documentation (that is, > not in marketing materials) even require a trademark license? I know > that it certainly does not in Denmark,

Re: Trademark policy for packages?

2006-02-01 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 09:18:10PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > Henning Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does the use of a trademark word to refer unambiguously to a specific > > technical protocol in package descriptions and documentation (that is, > > not in marketing materials) even re