Re: Reusing GPL code without applying GPL legal in Europe?

2006-09-02 Thread Krzysztof Siewicz
Dear All, I am a Polish lawyer currently preparing a doctorate on the protection of user freedoms. I have written on the scope of GPLv2's copyleft clause under Polish law (the link to the Polish version of the article is: http://ksiewicz.net/?p=17, I am working at making my page bilingual and the

Re: Reusing GPL code without applying GPL legal in Europe?

2006-09-02 Thread Arnoud Engelfriet
Krzysztof Siewicz wrote: > Art. 29 allows to quote fragments of already published works or small > works in whole, if it may be explained by, inter alia, ???laws of the type > of arts???. Does Polish copyright law not have a restriction that the _purpose_ of the quote must be something like criti

Re: Reusing GPL code without applying GPL legal in Europe?

2006-09-02 Thread Krzysztof Siewicz
Hi! Arnoud Engelfriet napisaƂ(a): > Does Polish copyright law not have a restriction that the _purpose_ > of the quote must be something like criticism, announcement, debate > and so on? That's what most countries have. Yes it does - they are in the same art. 29: "to the extent justified by expla

Re: The bigger issue is badly licensed blobs (was Re: Firmware poll

2006-09-02 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: > On Aug 31, Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Marco trolled again. FYI, no serious person disagrees with this >> interpretation. > Except every other distribution, which usually retain real lawyers > to advise them about potential problems

Use of the BTS for freeness/redistributability bugs

2006-09-02 Thread Anthony Towns
Hey all, Scanning through the RC bug list and there seem to be a lot of bugs of the form "foo is unsuitable for main because xyzzy license is non-free" and "foo cannot be redistributed because of barbazquux". I'm inclined to think there should be a regular tag for these bugs, perhaps "licensing".

Changing license

2006-09-02 Thread Patryk Cisek
Hello, I'm packaging Kadu program (www.kadu.net) for Debian and Ubuntu right now. There's a problem with Kadu's license (GPLv2 or later), which conflicts OpenSSL's license. When project started, upstream authors where not aware of the conflict, so they didn't add a proper exception. However, n

Re: Changing license

2006-09-02 Thread Kari Pahula
On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 05:58:12PM +0200, Patryk Cisek wrote: > Hello, > > I'm packaging Kadu program (www.kadu.net) for Debian and Ubuntu right now. > There's a problem with Kadu's license (GPLv2 or later), which conflicts > OpenSSL's license. When project started, upstream authors where not a

Re: Changing license

2006-09-02 Thread Daniel Baumann
Patryk Cisek wrote: > license? Well, they have rights to their patches, but copyright holder for > Kadu is Kadu Team (http://www.kadu.net/wiki/index.php/English:Authors). > Could someone, please, clarify this? For license changes, the copyright holder(s) are the important ones. If the Kadu tea