Re: Free non-software stuff and what does it mean. [was Re: General Resolution: Force AMD64 into Sarge]

2004-07-23 Thread Adam Majer
Andrew Suffield wrote: >On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 08:58:17PM -0500, Adam Majer wrote: > > >>My entire point here is that, >> >>1. You don't need a .wav "source" for an .ogg "binary" >>2. You don't need upstream pic "source"

Re: MySQL FOSS Exception

2004-07-23 Thread Adam Majer
Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: >http://www.mysql.com/products/licensing/foss-exception.html > >A few programs link currently the old non-GPL libmysqlclient10 in order >to retain compatibility with other free licenses which have known >problems and require exceptions (e.g. openssl). AFAIK the new >s

Re: Free non-software stuff and what does it mean. [was Re: General Resolution: Force AMD64 into Sarge]

2004-07-24 Thread Adam Majer
Don Armstrong wrote: That is, if, 1. data format is known, and 2. data is under a free license according to DFSG then such data is free according to DFSG. If the work satisfies DFSG ยง2, then yes. If not, no. Then maybe this is just a bunch of vapor. I don't think sourc

Re: Free non-software stuff and what does it mean. [was Re: General Resolution: Force AMD64 into Sarge]

2004-07-24 Thread Adam Majer
Glenn Maynard wrote: >That is, on principle I agree with Andrew, but in practice I'm leaning >to agree with you (but I'm not personally convinced strongly either way). >In practice, Debian has never fought the source-code battle for images, >fonts, sounds, movie clips, etc., and it's not clear tha

Re: Bug#287216: ITP: mysql++ -- C++ wrapper for MySQL's C API

2004-12-28 Thread Adam Majer
I'll ask debian-legal. I have a pretty good idea that LGPL is ok for source, but binary would be GPL due to MySQL client, but I'll ask anyway. This is a question about possible license combinations. More specifically, can a more freely licensed software than GPL use a GPL library. >>It states tha

BSD Protection License

2003-10-22 Thread Adam Majer
Hi, Could anyone tell me if the "BSD Protection License" can be used for main? It can be found at: http://people.debian.org/~adamm/LICENSE Thanks, Adam signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: BSD Protection License

2003-10-22 Thread Adam Majer
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 10:57:21PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: > On 2003-10-22 20:46:09 +0100 Adam Majer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >Could anyone tell me if the "BSD Protection License" can be used > >for main? > > You should include the text of a licence w

What constitutes a package for Policy

2004-02-03 Thread Adam Majer
Hi, I need clarification on what a package is. For example, the policy states (2.2.1): In addition, the packages in main * must not require a package outside of main for compilation or execution (thus, the package must not declare a "Depends", "Recommends", or "Build-Depen

Re: What constitutes a package for Policy

2004-02-04 Thread Adam Majer
On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 11:23:11PM -0600, Adam Majer wrote: > > Hi, > > I need clarification on what a package is. For example, the policy > states (2.2.1): Maybe I posted to the wrong list :) debian-policy might be better suited to answer this question. - Adam

Re: Bug#234477: ITP: logsurfer+ -- real-time system log monitor

2004-02-26 Thread Adam Majer
Henning Makholm wrote: Scripsit sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> You'll need to get them to grant permission to distribute modified copies; re-licensing it under the 3-clause BSD or MIT/X licenses (which are both DFSG-free and GPL-compatible) would work, and sound like they do what upstream w

Re: Bug#523093: undetermined copyright/license violation

2009-04-09 Thread Adam Majer
Robert Millan wrote: >> And so on. "* Copyright (C) 2009 Hubert Figuiere" is simply false, > > Alright. So, I understand you mean option 1 (see my paragraph starting > with "The new file seems to be asserting..." above). > > Unless there's a clear consensus in -legal that this is not a problem,