Re: legal questions regarding machine learning models

2009-05-29 Thread Mark Weyer
> > > > * xfonts-* (bitmap renderings of non-free vector fonts) > > > Are you saying that xfonts-* are derived from non-free fonts? > > > How can they be DFSG-free, then? > > > > In the US and some other places, bitmap fonts can't be copyrighted. You can > > make a free bitmap font by rende

Re: legal questions regarding machine learning models

2009-05-29 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
2009/5/29 Mark Weyer : > Am I missing something? I would think that even if in all jurisdictions > the font is non-copyrightable, that still would not imply DFSG-freeness, > only that it is fit for non-free. > > Best regards, > >  Mark Weyer That's what I thought as well cause source is not availa

Re: legal questions regarding machine learning models

2009-05-29 Thread Ben Finney
Dmitrijs Ledkovs writes: > That's what I thought as well cause source is not available in > preffered form of modification. I don't understand this. The definition that has been used in this thread is that the preferred form of the work for modifying that work *is* the source form. > But imagin

mono and moonlight distribution method make me worried.

2009-05-29 Thread Peter Dolding
moonlight ms conditions not to sue http://www.microsoft.com/interop/msnovellcollab/moonlight.mspx http://www.microsoft.com/interop/msnovellcollab/moonlight_definitions.aspx#intermediate "Intermediate Recipients" means resellers, recipients, and distributors to the extent they are authorized (dir

Re: Bug#531040: ITP: xvidcore -- High quality ISO MPEG4 ASP codec library

2009-05-29 Thread brian m. carlson
[ -legal CC'd; M-F-T set to -legal only; in no case should you CC me] On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 02:18:00PM +0200, Loïc Martin wrote: >License is GPL2+, except for 2 files (src/dct/{fdct.c,idct.c} ) which are >GPL2+, but with the additionnal note: > >> Permission is hereby granted to use, cop

Re: Bug#531040: ITP: xvidcore -- High quality ISO MPEG4 ASP codec library

2009-05-29 Thread Gunnar Wolf
brian m. carlson dijo [Fri, May 29, 2009 at 10:34:36PM +]: > >> Permission is hereby granted to use, copy, modify, and distribute this > >>software (or portions thereof) for any purpose, without fee, subject to > >> these > >>conditions: > >>(1) If any part of the source code for t

PS documentation file, no sources, author died

2009-05-29 Thread Rafael Laboissiere
I have filed an ITP for octave-quartenion [1], a package from the Octave-Forge Project [2]. Its latest released tarball [3] contains a documentation file doc/quartenion [4] in PostScript format for which no source is available. There is also no Copyright notice in the file itself, and there are n

Re: PS documentation file, no sources, author died

2009-05-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 6:21 AM, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: > I have filed an ITP for octave-quartenion [1], a package from the > Octave-Forge Project [2].  Its latest released tarball [3] contains a > documentation file doc/quartenion [4] in PostScript format for which no > source is available.