2008/2/26, Eitan Isaacson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> "In addition to the permissions and restrictions contained in the GNU
> General Public License (GPL), the copyright holders grant two explicit
> permissions and impose one explicit restriction. The permissions are:
>
> 1) Using, copying, merging
Miriam Ruiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Am I the only one seeing problems in the wording of these
> "permissions"? What does "not bound by the GPL"? [...]
> Does it make sense? [...]
No, you're not the only one.
It might mean that we don't have a valid license for those acts, or it
might mean th
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 02:29:05PM -0800, Eitan Isaacson wrote:
>> 3. The translation tables that are read at run-time are considered
>> part of this code and are under the terms of the GPL. Any changes to
>> these tables and any additional tables that are created for use
Eitan Isaacson dijo [Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 02:29:05PM -0800]:
> (...)
> 1) Using, copying, merging, publishing, distributing, sublicensing,
> and/or selling copies of this software that are either compiled or
> loaded as part of and/or linked into other code is not bound by the
> GPL.
Ok, so maybe
John J. Boyer dijo [Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 06:44:50PM -0600]:
> I don't understand why requiring that translation tables should be
> publicly available makes the software non-free. After all, isn't this
> exactly what the GPL requires for code.
Modifying them for internal use should _not_ require
Just out of curiosity, what do you mean by the "desert island test?"
Mike
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2008/2/27, Mike Sivill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Just out of curiosity, what do you mean by the "desert island test?"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_Free_Software_Guidelines
Greetings,
Miry
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Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >This fails the "desert island test", and so the package is non-free.
>
> The "desert island test" is just something which was invented a few
> years ago by some debian-legal@ posters
In other words, the "desert island test"
Ben Finney wrote:
>Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> >This fails the "desert island test", and so the package is non-free.
>>
>> The "desert island test" is just something which was invented a few
>> years ago by some debian-legal@ posters
>
>In other wor
On Wednesday 27 February 2008 04:20:56 pm Steve McIntyre wrote:
> So long as you add the rider that some of the debian-legal subscribers
> believe it (and some of the other common "tests") are ridiculously
> contrived and bogus.
And not grounded in the specific language of the DFSG but rather a sh
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On 27-02-2008 23:13, Sean Kellogg wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 February 2008 04:20:56 pm Steve McIntyre wrote:
>> So long as you add the rider that some of the debian-legal subscribers
>> believe it (and some of the other common "tests") are ridiculously
>
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