[swhoisd] Want to make sure...

2006-09-07 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello, Currently I am packing the swhoisd (Simpel Whois Daemon) for Debian but I want to make sure, there are no problems... COPYING: 8< Copyright © 2000 Joao Cabral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> All rights reserved. Copyright © 2001 Dan

Re: Want to make sure...

2006-09-07 Thread Andrew Donnellan
That license is OK. On 9/6/06, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, Currently I am packing the swhoisd (Simpel Whois Daemon) for Debian but I want to make sure, there are no problems... COPYING: 8< Copyright (c)

Re: Want to make sure...

2006-09-07 Thread Andrew Donnellan
On 9/6/06, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 3. The name of the authors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission. Is that a copying error or just a really stupid license? I would insert the word 'not' inbetwee

Re: Copyright in public domain package

2006-09-07 Thread MJ Ray
Michael Hanke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [ Please keep me CC'ed, I'm not subscribed. ] [...] > I talked to upstream and they replaced those statement with something > like the following to make their software acceptable for Debian main: > > # The immv file was originally part of FSL - FMRIB's Softwar

Re: Want to make sure...

2006-09-07 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-09-07 19:17:58, schrieb Andrew Donnellan: > On 9/6/06, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 3. The name of the authors may be used to endorse or promote products > >derived from this software without specific prior written permission. > > Is that a copying error or just a re

Re: Generating VST headers

2006-09-07 Thread Free Ekanayaka
Hi Javier, sorry for the delay, but I was on holiday and I'm still recovering the old mails.. |--==> Javier Serrano Polo writes: JSP> Hi, again. JSP> You may have heard about VST and its non-free headers. I'm using a free JSP> program that optionally supports that technology and, of course

Re: Want to make sure...

2006-09-07 Thread MJ Ray
Andrew Donnellan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On 9/6/06, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 3. The name of the authors may be used to endorse or promote products > > derived from this software without specific prior written permission. > > Is that a copying error or just a really stupid

Re: Bug#386406: libmms: majormms haven't yet granted relicensing to LGPL

2006-09-07 Thread Loïc Minier
Hi, On Thu, Sep 07, 2006, Anon Sricharoenchai wrote: > According to, > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xine-devel&m=107261185004445&w=2 , since > they can't find where to contact the author of majormms, either in > majormms website, http://www.geocities.com/majormms/ , and its source, > ht

Re: Copyright in public domain package

2006-09-07 Thread Marco d'Itri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >How has it 'been placed in the public domain'? I am not aware of any >way to do that in Oxford besides copyright expiring, or the work somehow >not qualifying for automatic copyright protection anyway. It may be >possible to disclaim all copyright interest in a work, bu

libmms: majormms haven't yet granted relicensing to LGPL

2006-09-07 Thread Anon Sricharoenchai
Package: libmms Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.3 According to, http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xine-devel&m=107261185004445&w=2 , since they can't find where to contact the author of majormms, either in majormms website, http://www.geocities.com/majormms/ , and its source, http://www.ge

[Fwd: Re: Problem with license of msv-xsdlib]

2006-09-07 Thread Eric Lavarde - Debian
Hi, our package msv-xsdlib [1] has been refused even from non-free due to license issues. Hence I've contacted the upstream developer (from Sun) and got the answer below. As I understand from different discussions that the CDDL license in critical in regard to "freeness", I have some questions: 1

Re: Changing license

2006-09-07 Thread Patryk Cisek
Dnia poniedziałek, 4 września 2006 21:02, Tommi Mäkitalo napisał: > I looked at the sources just to check if I can help. I ported my > C++-application (tntnet) from openssl to gnutls to fix the license-problem > as Kari Pahula suggested here (and me). But I found out, that all > openssl-checks are

Re: Want to make sure...

2006-09-07 Thread Andrew Donnellan
On 9/7/06, MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Andrew Donnellan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On 9/6/06, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 3. The name of the authors may be used to endorse or promote products > > derived from this software without specific prior written permission. > > I

Re: Copyright in public domain package

2006-09-07 Thread MJ Ray
Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >How has it 'been placed in the public domain'? I am not aware of any > >way to do that in Oxford besides copyright expiring, or the work somehow > >not qualifying for automatic copyright protection anyway. It may be > >possible to dis

Re: Generating VST headers

2006-09-07 Thread Javier Serrano Polo
En/na Free Ekanayaka ha escrit: > Hi Javier, > > sorry for the delay, but I was on holiday and I'm still recovering the > old mails.. Oh my, you don't need to apologize. > JSP> Oh, that reminds me. Free Ekanayaka, did you get explicit permission > JSP> from Torben Hohn? You know that Steinbe

Re: Want to make sure...

2006-09-07 Thread MJ Ray
Andrew Donnellan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hmm, that does explain, but seriously I would be concerned as an > author! eg. Someone could take my work and add a splashscreen that > says "Andrew Donnellan is crap" and use it to make an illegal crack > downloading program or something like that. Then they