Re: Debian-approved creative/content license?

2007-03-27 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-03-11 12:14:09, schrieb Francesco Poli: > On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 15:01:30 +1100 Ben Finney wrote: > > Even the GPL > > terms could be used, so long as it's clear what "the preferred form of > > the work for making modifications to it" means for that work. > > Agreed, with the addition that, I

Re: Debian-approved creative/content license?

2007-03-27 Thread Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu)
Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2007-03-11 12:14:09, schrieb Francesco Poli: >> On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 15:01:30 +1100 Ben Finney wrote: >>> Even the GPL >>> terms could be used, so long as it's clear what "the preferred form of >>> the work for making modifications to it" means for that work. >> Agreed,

Licence and copyright for autogenerated files (gtk-vim-syntax)

2007-03-27 Thread Laurent Bigonville
Hi, I'm currently making a package for gtk-vim-syntax (ITP[1]). The files in this package are auto-generated by a script (the script is in the public domain). This excerpt comes from the README: 8<== Copying: I hereby waive any potential rights on the syntax files. I am not sure

Re: Licence and copyright for autogenerated files (gtk-vim-syntax)

2007-03-27 Thread Andrew Donnellan
On 3/28/07, Laurent Bigonville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: By reading this I'm tempted to think that these files belong to the public domain. Could the name of functions and parameters owned by someone? Who must I credit for these files and under which licence? What do you think? I'd say they

Re: Debian-approved creative/content license?

2007-03-27 Thread Francesco Poli
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 01:18:32 +0800 Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) wrote: > Michelle Konzack wrote: [...] > > I personaly consider "mp3/mp4" and "ogg" (vorbis, theora, ...) NOT > > as "the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it". > > > > I asume, that there are nore then one person on

Re: Licence and copyright for autogenerated files (gtk-vim-syntax)

2007-03-27 Thread Ben Finney
Laurent Bigonville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Copying: I hereby waive any potential rights on the syntax files. I > am not sure whether a list of library symbols can be copyrighted at > all. But this world is full of lawyers with the silliest ideas. The > ideal state (which would solve all

Choosing a license for Frets on Fire songs

2007-03-27 Thread Jason Spiro
We have a question about the default songs for the guitar-simulation game Frets On Fire. (We would like to get the songs into main if possible; otherwise, into contrib or non-free. But we need to satisfy the Finnish music licensing organization Teosto. The full original thread is at http://bugs

Re: Choosing a license for Frets on Fire songs

2007-03-27 Thread Don Armstrong
First off, thanks to all involved for working through this; legal stuff is annoying, but getting it right early makes it all worthwhile in the end. On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Jason Spiro wrote: > We have a question about the default songs for the guitar-simulation > game Frets On Fire. (We would like t

Re: Choosing a license for Frets on Fire songs

2007-03-27 Thread Jason Spiro
Hi all, hi Don; thanks for your input. 2007/3/27, Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [parts snipped] There's really no point to drafting such a license, because it would not be acceptable for main, and more to the point, Teosto would have to vet it. Teosto's lawyers should really be the o

Re: Choosing a license for Frets on Fire songs

2007-03-27 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Jason Spiro wrote: > Maybe if debian-legal or I wrote the license (I have never written a > license before, but maybe I could modify the MIT license) we could > get Teosto to agree on more liberal terms than we would get if > Teosto wrote one? The following is what I would use

Re: Choosing a license for Frets on Fire songs

2007-03-27 Thread Jason Spiro
2007/3/27, Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Jason Spiro wrote: > Maybe if debian-legal or I wrote the license (I have never written a > license before, but maybe I could modify the MIT license) we could > get Teosto to agree on more liberal terms than we would get if > Teos

Re: Choosing a license for Frets on Fire songs

2007-03-27 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Jason Spiro wrote: > 2007/3/27, Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Jason Spiro wrote: > >> Maybe if debian-legal or I wrote the license (I have never written a > >> license before, but maybe I could modify the MIT license) we could > >> get Teosto to agr

Re: Choosing a license for Frets on Fire songs

2007-03-27 Thread Andrew Donnellan
On 3/28/07, Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well, it actually seems rather strange to me for an organization which is designed to "protect" artists disallowing artists from determining how their own works are licensed, so I'm trying to give them the benifit of the doubt here. Do they r