Re: Which license am I looking for?

2009-01-19 Thread Дмитрий Ледков
Francesco Poli wrote: > On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 20:27:16 +0100 Mark Weyer wrote: > >> Thanks for your reply. > > You're welcome! :) > >> On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 05:43:05PM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: > [...] > In other words, you want to maximize compatibility with other copyleft > licenses and still

Re: Which license am I looking for?

2009-01-19 Thread Mark Weyer
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 09:26:20AM +, Дмитрий Ледков wrote: > Francesco Poli wrote: > > In other words, you want to maximize compatibility with other copyleft > > licenses and still have a copyleft license... > > I think these two requirements are _very_ hard to satisfy at the same > > time; it

Re: Which license am I looking for?

2009-01-19 Thread Ben Finney
Дмитрий Ледков writes: > Francesco Poli wrote: > > [...] > > Same disclaimers as before: IANAL, TINLA, IANADD, TINASOTODP. > > Erhhhmm. What do these stand for? I can only guess IANADD from > mentors list - does it stand for I am not a Debian Developer? What > about the others? For reasons

Re: Using NASA Imagery

2009-01-19 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Sean Kellogg [090119 01:58]: > Having said all that, the meaning of this paragraph -- to me, at least > -- is straight forward. It says that the U.S. Government, having > decided to deny itself a copyright in the U.S., does not preclude > itself from accepting a copyright from a different jurisd

Re: Which license am I looking for?

2009-01-19 Thread Francesco Poli
On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:03:32 +1100 Ben Finney wrote: > Дмитрий Ледков writes: > > > Francesco Poli wrote: > > > [...] > > > Same disclaimers as before: IANAL, TINLA, IANADD, TINASOTODP. > > > > Erhhhmm. What do these stand for? I can only guess IANADD from > > mentors list - does it stand fo

Re: Which license am I looking for?

2009-01-19 Thread Sean Kellogg
On Monday 19 January 2009 02:03:32 am Ben Finney wrote: > Дмитрий Ледков writes: > > > Francesco Poli wrote: > > > [...] > > > Same disclaimers as before: IANAL, TINLA, IANADD, TINASOTODP. > > > > Erhhhmm. What do these stand for? I can only guess IANADD from > > mentors list - does it stand

Re: Which license am I looking for?

2009-01-19 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <200901191101.08985.skell...@gmail.com>, Sean Kellogg writes Stated a tad more fairly to those who have asked Fancesco to add disclaimers... Francesco has a tendency to state opinions a little too "matter-of-factly" for some d-l participents, leading those who disagree to accuse him

Re: Using NASA Imagery

2009-01-19 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <20090119110756.ga18...@pcpool00.mathematik.uni-freiburg.de>, Bernhard R. Link writes * Sean Kellogg [090119 01:58]: Having said all that, the meaning of this paragraph -- to me, at least -- is straight forward. It says that the U.S. Government, having decided to deny itself a copyr

Re: Which license am I looking for?

2009-01-19 Thread Sean Kellogg
On Monday 19 January 2009 11:59:13 am Anthony W. Youngman wrote: > In message <200901191101.08985.skell...@gmail.com>, Sean Kellogg > writes > >Stated a tad more fairly to those who have asked Fancesco to add > >disclaimers... Francesco has a tendency to state opinions a little too > >"matter-o

Licensing debian/*

2009-01-19 Thread Дмитрий Ледков
Dear debian-legal I have a few questions about licensing debian/* The proposed copyright format and policy suggest that the packaging data should be licensed. And that has raised a few questions for the trivial package I'm working on. 1) What is the recommended license? Public domain? Considerin

Re: Licensing debian/*

2009-01-19 Thread Ben Finney
Дмитрий Ледков writes: > I have a few questions about licensing debian/* > > The proposed copyright format and policy suggest that the packaging > data should be licensed. Like any other intellectual work expressed in some form, with very few exceptions. > And that has raised a few questions f

Re: Which license am I looking for?

2009-01-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
Sean Kellogg wrote: >On Monday 19 January 2009 02:03:32 am Ben Finney wrote: >> >> He apparently finds it best to include these disclaimers to forestall >> such ire. Which is a perfectly valid position for him to take, given >> the persistence of said ire, and its peculiar tendency to be directed