Re: kscope licences

2006-04-14 Thread Ben
MJ Ray a écrit : Fathi Boudra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Upstream author find a solution : The next version of KScope, due shortly, uses 'dot' from the command-line=20 instead of dynamically linking with graphviz. This should solve all licensi= ng problems. That seems a good solution. Thanks

Re: Dual licensing [Was: Re: cdrtools]

2006-07-08 Thread BEn
George Danchev a écrit : On Saturday 08 July 2006 08:41, Don Armstrong wrote: We've stepped into -legal territory now. MFT set to send messages only to -legal; please respond there only. Sure. On Sat, 08 Jul 2006, George Danchev wrote: Well, I have the following 'and' vs. 'o

Re: Please pass judgement on X-Oz licence: free or nay?

2004-08-04 Thread Ben Pfaff
x27;s here. > > Please note that is not a consensus here. The BSD license is DFSG-free because the DFSG explicitly states that it is free. The DFSG was written long before UC removed the advertising clause, so this is the version of the BSD license that the DFSG references. -- Ben Pfa

Re: Bug#281672: marked as done (autoconf: non-free documentation)

2004-11-23 Thread Ben Pfaff
Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Debian Bug Tracking System ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041123 20:55]: >>* Removed documentation. Hope this makes everyone happy. Closes: >> #281671, #281672, #143536. > > No, it doesn't. I hope that you don't mind to much for speaking > that. Take

Re: Bug#281672: marked as done (autoconf: non-free documentation)

2004-11-23 Thread Ben Pfaff
Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Ben Pfaff wrote: >> They've concluded that the GNU FDL does not satisfy the DFSG, > > Yes. > >> and that everything in Debian (apparently modulo licenses >> themselves) must satisfy the D

Re: Bug#220464: gimp: LZW patent is still valid in Europe and Japan

2003-11-12 Thread Ben Gertzfield
re debian-legal will have more to say on this point. Ben

Re: Bug#220464: gimp: LZW patent is still valid in Europe and Japan

2003-11-12 Thread Ben Gertzfield
d we have to put GNU hello into non-free because people in China then couldn't legally distribute Debian? Ben

Re: Bug#220464: gimp: LZW patent is still valid in Europe and Japan

2003-11-13 Thread Ben Reser
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 01:57:55PM -0800, Ben Gertzfield wrote: > Ah. I parsed it as (patents that make their distribution problematic) > or (other issues that make their distribution problematic). > > Maybe we need more operator precedence in English.. > > In any case, I

Re: Bug#220464: gimp: LZW patent is still valid in Europe and Japan

2003-11-15 Thread Ben Reser
g or not shipping the code does not change your freedom to use it. If you want to change that contact the appropriate governmental representative. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "Conscience is the inner voice which warns us somebody may be looking." - H.L. Mencken

Re: copyleft licence compatible with apache licence

2003-11-28 Thread Ben Reser
kept a good history of constributors or wrote it entirely yourself. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "Conscience is the inner voice which warns us somebody may be looking." - H.L. Mencken

Re: [vorlon@netexpress.net: Re: Bug#181969: [mdadams@ece.uvic.ca: Re: JasPer licensing wrt Debian Linux]]

2003-12-17 Thread Ben Reser
cipation in working with the other Copyright holder to find a solution that gives you the protection that you desire and gives us license terms that we consider free/libre. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "Conscience is the inner voice which warns us somebody may be looking." - H.L. Mencken

Re: popular swirl...

2003-12-30 Thread Ben Reser
t off part of the tail, but it is pretty darn obvious that it's from the same source. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "Conscience is the inner voice which warns us somebody may be looking." - H.L. Mencken

Re: popular swirl...

2003-12-30 Thread Ben Reser
n certify that it is an original work? If SPI can do that they have a case of a clear derivative work. If SPI can't do that then Debian needs a different logo. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "Conscience is the inner voice which warns us somebody may be looking." - H.L. Mencken

Re: License conflict for VM screensaver (kdeartwork)

2004-10-14 Thread Ben Burton
ly also under the BSD-with-advertising-clause (since that's what vm_random's copyright notice says). In this case, my understanding is that UC Berkeley cannot change the licensing for someone else's modifications. Ben.

Re: License conflict for VM screensaver (kdeartwork)

2004-10-15 Thread Ben Burton
Hi, > So the mentioned paragraph in vm_random.c should be considered struck as per > July 22, 1999 In which case, could you (or someone else willing to take this responsibility) please delete the clause from vm_random.c in CVS to avoid future confusion? Thanks - Ben.

Re: License conflict for VM screensaver (kdeartwork)

2004-10-15 Thread Ben Burton
> Good idea, I added (...) Many thanks. Ben.

Re: License conflict for VM screensaver (kdeartwork)

2004-10-15 Thread Ben Burton
). If it is too difficult to case up all the contributers to vm_random.c, might it be easier to alter the licensing on the KDE portions of the screensaver (the GPLed parts) in the meantime? Ben.

Re: ITP some 13 years old code with unknown license

2004-10-23 Thread Ben Pfaff
http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/hpfreeware/Games/Arcade/blockade-1.00/blockade-1.00.README.html which listed these email addresses for the author: old: mcgill-vision!mouse new: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Some Google searches based on these email addresses might be useful. -- Ben Pfaff email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://benpfaff.org

Re: popular swirl...

2004-01-01 Thread Ben Reser
t hold a trademark on the logo. It's somewhat difficult to use a logo without making a copy and distributing it. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "Conscience is the inner voice which warns us somebody may be looking." - H.L. Mencken

Re: [vorlon@netexpress.net: Re: Bug#181969: [mdadams@ece.uvic.ca: Re: JasPer licensing wrt Debian Linux]]

2004-01-02 Thread Ben Reser
the interpretation of what is an acceptable and not-acceptable free software license. You're free to license your software anyway you choose. And of course Debian, and other projects are free to reject it on this basis or whatever other considerations are important for their project. -- B

Re: [vorlon@netexpress.net: Re: Bug#181969: [mdadams@ece.uvic.ca: Re: JasPer licensing wrt Debian Linux]]

2004-01-02 Thread Ben Reser
we really can't come to some sort of compromise then I guess I'll just have to look elsewhere for a JPEG-2000 impelmentation. This is not meant as a threat. It's just the reality of the licensing situation. Standard disclaimers apply. I'm not a lawyer nor is this legal advice. It's based on my own lay understanding of the law. And it's mostly based on US law which may not be entirely applicable to you since you're in Canada. [1] http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/35/261.html -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "Conscience is the inner voice which warns us somebody may be looking." - H.L. Mencken

License Conflict in slmodem-2.9.5

2004-01-29 Thread Ben Reser
reach a resolution to this licensing problem. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "Conscience is the inner voice which warns us somebody may be looking." - H.L. Mencken

Re: JasPer License Issues: Some Potentially Good News

2004-01-29 Thread Ben Reser
doesn't have any applicable patents that they own. Your wording is very similar to IBM's 2c, but then this is pretty boiler plate language. Making the change I suggested to 3 above would make your license acceptable as far as I can see without really changing the protection that you're receiving under it. I hope this helps. FYI IANAL TINLA. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "Conscience is the inner voice which warns us somebody may be looking." - H.L. Mencken

Re: License Conflict in slmodem-2.9.5

2004-01-30 Thread Ben Reser
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 01:07:28AM -0500, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: > Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The inclusion of the GPL licensed file triggers the requirements of > > section 2b of the GPL, which requires that the entire work be GPL'd. > > This i

Re: crypto in non-free

2004-02-02 Thread Ben Reser
publically available. The problem with non-free is that some things in it may not meet the definition of publically available. For instance a tool that didn't include the source code would not qualify, even if the binaries are freely distributable. IANAL, TINLA. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL

Re: XFree86 license difficulties

2004-02-02 Thread Ben Reser
broadly to apply the operating system exception. All of which can reasonably be accepted as valid interpretations. I'm not sure if FSF has weighed in on this issue but I'd guess Debian would yield to whatever their interpretation of the issue was. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "Conscience is the inner voice which warns us somebody may be looking." - H.L. Mencken

Re: Fwd: [Politech] California DeCSS case eventually, finally, over [ip]

2004-02-05 Thread Ben Reser
eme Court, the battle is far from over. I'd guess the DVD-CCA decided continuing to insist that CSS is a trade secret was pointless when they were loosing the case and the case didn't ultimately change the outcome they desired. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org

Re: Fwd: [Politech] California DeCSS case eventually, finally, over [ip]

2004-02-06 Thread Ben Reser
inted as well. Fortunately, we no longer have to worry about that. They lost in Norway and California. I think that issue is dead. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "Conscience is the inner voice which warns us somebody may be looking." - H.L. Mencken

Re: Fwd: [Politech] California DeCSS case eventually, finally, over [ip]

2004-02-06 Thread Ben Reser
GPL or they really can comply with both. I'd be very surpised if they worked out such an agreement with the DVD-CCA. People who are sue other people to stop them from distributing such information don't tend to turn around and sign an agreement with someone else to allow them to do so i

Re: Debian Legal summary of the X-Oz License

2004-02-29 Thread Ben Reser
aminate other software? No Is the clause necessary? In my opinion No. But it has nothing to do with the DFSG. I think you realize this because you neglected to mention which clause of the DFGS Clause 4 violated. P.S. I'm not speaking for Debian or anyone else. But rather speaki

Re: XFree86 is changing their license

2004-02-29 Thread Ben Reser
easily solved. All the remaining huge problems are, i think, of > political and project leadership power struggle nature, which i think is > a sad thing. I concur fully with this assessment. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "Conscience is the inner voice which warns us somebody may be looking." - H.L. Mencken

Re: license for Federal Information Processing Standards

2004-02-29 Thread Ben Reser
he question of if there is a copyright on the work. Ask them and see if they would be willing to write a statement regarding that and publish it on their website. If they were to proclaim that they considered the works to be in the public domain, it'd be difficult for them to claim otherwise

Re: Debian Legal summary of the X-Oz License

2004-03-01 Thread Ben Reser
unreasonable requests. None of the tests in Q8 on the first URL you gave are failed. Let's assume that Clause 4 doesn't even exist in the license now. Can the author still sue you into oblivion for using his trademarks? You betcha. In fact this license is explicitly giving you

Re: Debian & the Mozilla Firefox Trademarks

2004-03-01 Thread Ben Goodger
Eric Dorland wrote: Hi Ben, Hi Eric, I'm replying to this including our QA person, Asa Dotzler who is interested in these matters. You probably don't know me, so let me introduce myself: I'm the Firefox maintainer in Debian. I'm contacting you because of the

Re: Debian Legal summary of the X-Oz License

2004-03-01 Thread Ben Reser
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 08:47:09PM +, MJ Ray wrote: > On 2004-03-01 18:35:13 +0000 Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Did you read the license we're talking about? > > I was referring to > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/debian-legal-200402/msg0015

Re: Debian Legal summary of the X-Oz License

2004-03-01 Thread Ben Reser
s but rather seek an explanation from them. I've emailed them privately asking for clarification on Clause 4. I have not asked about Clause 3 since it is clearly directly copied from the Apache 1.1 license. > First you write that claiming DFSG compliance is ridiculous, and now > yo

Re: Debian Legal summary of the X-Oz License

2004-03-02 Thread Ben Reser
nless they don't post directly here. I'd rather everyone gets this from directly rather than indirectly. > It's easy to misunderstand "denying it as DFSG compliant is > ridiculous". Yeah I realize the ambiguity now. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.

Re: X-Oz Technologies

2004-03-02 Thread Ben Reser
you could comment on the issues raised in this email it would be most helpful: http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/debian-legal-200402/msg00162.html Thanks. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "Conscience is the inner voice which warns us somebody may be looking." - H.L. Mencken

Re: Debian Legal summary of the X-Oz License

2004-03-02 Thread Ben Reser
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 04:12:45PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 02:28:37PM -0800, Ben Reser wrote: > > 1) Do you need the right to use the name of the copyright holder in > > order to make free use of the software? > > Copyright doesn't cove

Re: Debian Legal summary of the X-Oz License

2004-03-02 Thread Ben Reser
eels this clause is necessary? Based upon what I've been told from them directly they included it because it had always been there. They wanted a license that was similar to the existing X licenses. I really don't understand why the X-Oz / XFree86 licenses are being picked on (and I reall

Re: Debian Legal summary of the X-Oz License

2004-03-02 Thread Ben Reser
isticated about these things. That way, we better serve > the interests of our friends who are bored to tears by legal crap and > would rather just be writing and debugging code. Okay, so I've wrongly accussed you of picking on a particular license. But seeing the strong argument against this license and pretty much not mentioning the other licenses (excluding XFree86 1.1) it seemed that way. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "Conscience is the inner voice which warns us somebody may be looking." - H.L. Mencken

Re: Debian Legal summary of the X-Oz License

2004-03-02 Thread Ben Reser
e crux. I have argued that, depending on what is meant, it > fails DFSG 9. You say it doesn't -- do you hold that position > regardless of what clarification as to the meaning may be forthcoming > from X-Oz Technologies, Inc.? If they came back and said your interpretation is correct I

Re: Debian Legal summary of the X-Oz License

2004-03-02 Thread Ben Reser
ritten permission. (Note that this is the BSD endorsement clause without the language about contributors names) 2) Would you consider using this language instead of your existing language for Clause 4 if it would relieve some fears that people have about your license and resulted in better

Re: Debian Legal summary of the X-Oz License

2004-03-02 Thread Ben Reser
ht to use the > name of a copyright holder for promotional purposes automatically > attaches to any copyright license, no matter how liberal its terms. Can > you tell us why X-Oz Technology, Inc., feels this clause is necessary? I'm going to assume that X-Oz is going to find these questi

Re: Debian Legal summary of the X-Oz License

2004-03-02 Thread Ben Reser
u mean by conditional. But the old XFree86 license (XFree86 4.3 and older, identified as the XFree86 1.0 license) has the exact same language. It's the very last sentence in the license, has no numbering and is after the disclaimer. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "Conscience is the inner voice which warns us somebody may be looking." - H.L. Mencken

Re: Cryptlib licence

2004-03-04 Thread Ben Pfaff
Humberto Massa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [...license for cryptlib...] Except for proper names, this is identical to the license for the libdb4.0 package, which is already in Debian main. -- Peter Seebach on managing engineers: "It's like herding cats, only most of the engineers are already

Re: Debian Legal summary of the X-Oz License

2004-03-04 Thread Ben Reser
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 09:18:57PM -0800, Ben Reser wrote: > On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 04:04:22AM +, MJ Ray wrote: > > "Redo my work, Branden"? > > No, I think them making statements directly here is more effective than > me relaying them. Like I said in another

Re: subversion in main?

2004-03-07 Thread Ben Reser
st/svn/archive-2004-03/0001.shtml Later on in the thread I explicitly ask Brian if this is what he meant (my summary above) in the linked message and he says yes. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "Conscience is the inner voice which warns us somebody may be looking." - H.L. Mencken

Re: Debian Legal summary of the X-Oz License

2004-03-07 Thread Ben Reser
due to the placement. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "Conscience is the inner voice which warns us somebody may be looking." - H.L. Mencken

Re: Cryptlib licence

2004-03-07 Thread Ben Reser
On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 02:15:27PM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote: > Humberto Massa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > [...license for cryptlib...] > > Except for proper names, this is identical to the license for > the libdb4.0 package, which is already in Debian main. To

Re: Cryptlib licence

2004-03-07 Thread Ben Reser
erstood. My guess would be the author doesn't want the viral nature of the GPL. They want copyleft, but not copyleft that is as restrictive about the nature under which the source is made available. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "Conscience is the inner voice which warns us somebody may be looking." - H.L. Mencken

Re: Cryptlib licence

2004-03-07 Thread Ben Reser
On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 06:17:12PM -0800, Ben Reser wrote: > If the cryptlib author would state that he agrees with sleepycat's > clarifications then I don't think there are any problems with this > license. Upon further review looks like the author has done this basically on

Re: Debian Legal summary of the X-Oz License

2004-03-07 Thread Ben Reser
On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 09:46:15PM -0500, selussos wrote: > I am unaware of what AIUI means so I cannot comment on > this at all. As I Understand It -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "Conscience is the inner voice which warns us somebody may be looking." - H.L. Mencken

Re: Debian Legal summary of the X-Oz License

2004-03-07 Thread Ben Reser
e X-Oz license, someone needs to deal with the XFree86 1.0 license as well. [1] http://www.x-oz.com/licenses.html [2] http://www.xfree86.org/legal/licenses [3] http://www.x.org/Downloads_terms.html -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "Conscience is the inner voice which warns us somebody may be looking." - H.L. Mencken

Re: License for the Torque Resource Manager (RFC)

2004-03-11 Thread Ben Pfaff
license for Torque has this additional phrase: > > "After December 31, 2001, only conditions 3-6 must be met" Conditions 3 and 4 refer to condition 7. Is this license meant as some sort of sadistic logic puzzle for lawyers? -- Ben Pfaff email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://benpfaff.org

Re: UMORIA licensing review

2005-09-11 Thread Ben Asselstine
September 11, 2005 10:22 am To: "Ben Asselstine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Perhaps somewhere the fact that I released it to the public domain must have been lost. -j

Proposed licence for Debconf video recordings

2006-05-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
could legally remove the copyright notice and permission notice? The lack of a clear distinction between source and binary for video means that the licence is much more like copyleft than the originali (but without any mention of a preferred form). Does anyone on the video team see this as a problem?

Re: [Debconf-video] Re: Proposed licence for Debconf video recordings

2006-05-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
Francesco Poli wrote: > On Mon, 15 May 2006 03:34:12 +0100 Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > This is a proposed licence text for the Debconf video recordings > > (and potentially other audio and video recordings), based on the MIT/X > > licence: > > > > He

Re: [Debconf-video] Re: Proposed licence for Debconf video recordings

2006-05-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
[Sorry for the dupe, Don. I meant to reply only to these lists.] Don Armstrong wrote: > On Mon, 15 May 2006, Ben Hutchings wrote: Thanks for the diff. > This is pretty much is just the XFree86 license; I don't think there's > any problem with works under this licence be

Re: Proposed licence for Debconf video recordings

2006-05-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
POSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION -WITH THE RECORDING OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE RECORDING. +WITH THE

Re: GPL violates DFSG point 3

2006-05-31 Thread Ben Finney
earlier they wouldn't have to go so fast." -- Steven Wright | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DFSG as Licence?

2006-06-11 Thread Ben Finney
o__) more complicated." -- Paul Anderson | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

GNU GPL future (was: Re: DFSG as Licence?)

2006-06-12 Thread Ben Finney
e glad to serve others by any invention of ours." -- | _o__) Benjamin Franklin | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DFSG as Licence?

2006-06-12 Thread Ben Finney
anywhere near the place." -- Steven Wright | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: IBM CPL v1

2006-06-12 Thread Ben Finney
A. | `\ Beardsley | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: IBM CPL v1

2006-06-12 Thread Ben Finney
MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I concur that it's not a fee[0]. > > [0] I do feel that an individual's private information is effectively > > a valuable property that can be traded at the individual's di

Re: Debian Open Use Logo License - is it compatible with...

2006-07-03 Thread Ben Finney
Russell Lowell | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Rejected Package - Licence question

2006-07-10 Thread Ben Finney
he government is wrong." -- | `\Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Rejected Package - Licence question

2006-07-13 Thread Ben Finney
o be built from 'debian/rules'. -- \ "I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer | `\ thinks he can get me five." -- Steven Wright | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: question about IEEE OUI data

2006-07-24 Thread Ben Pfaff
facts, it is probably not copyrightable in the United States, in the same way that a phone book is not copyrightable. I wouldn't presume to say anything about other countries, but that's my guess about the U.S. -- Ben Pfaff email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://benpfaff.org --

Re: Bug#203211: Software patents and Debian

2006-08-18 Thread Ben Finney
2 is half an operating system, | `\ Windows is a shell, and DOS is a boot partition virus." -- | _o__) Peter H. Coffin | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Software patents and Debian

2006-08-18 Thread Ben Finney
e peace-keeping force" -- Dire Straits, | _o__) _Once Upon A Time In The West_ | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Software patents and Debian

2006-08-19 Thread Ben Finney
Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This one time, at band camp, Ben Finney said: > > Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Still, the DFSG does not addrss patents. > > > > The DFSG doesn't talk about any particular branch of

Re: DomainKeys license(s)

2006-08-24 Thread Ben Finney
common | _o__) wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." -- Jack Handey | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Copyright in public domain package

2006-09-18 Thread Ben Finney
rning, I just can't get started until | `\ I've had that first, piping hot pot of coffee. Oh, I've tried | _o__) other enemas..." -- Emo Philips | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: selling web application access

2006-09-20 Thread Ben Finney
l> -- \ "Tis more blessed to give than to receive; for example, wedding | `\ presents." -- Henry L. Mencken | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: License review request: LinuxMagic FSCL

2006-09-26 Thread Ben Finney
It is the responsibility of intellectuals to tell the truth | `\and expose lies." -- Noam Chomsky | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: public domain, take ?$B!g

2006-09-28 Thread Ben Pfaff
(s) place no restrictions on this script's usage." What about modification and distribution? -- Ben Pfaff email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://benpfaff.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: public domain, take ?$B!g

2006-09-28 Thread Ben Finney
"Andrew Donnellan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 9/28/06, Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What about modification and distribution? > > To be more explicit you could say 'usage, modification, or distribution.' Since, as investigation int

Re: Releasing a software implementation of a board game as Free Software

2006-10-14 Thread Ben Finney
d derivative works only serve to drive up interest in their games, so you may find the company quite helpful. -- \ "[W]hoever is able to make you absurd is able to make you | `\ unjust." -- Voltaire | _o__)

Re: main or contrib?

2006-10-26 Thread Ben Finney
program, "is the same program" != "functionality does not change" -- \ "I was in a bar the other night, hopping from barstool to | `\ barstool, trying to get lucky, but there wasn't any gum under | _o__) any of them."

Re: main or contrib?

2006-10-26 Thread Ben Finney
Michael Poole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ben Finney writes: > > Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I am saying that the driver does not "depend" on the firmware > >> because its functionality does not change if the firmware i

Re: main or contrib?

2006-10-26 Thread Ben Finney
Michael Poole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ben Finney writes: > > Likewise, if a program will behave markedly differently in the > > absence of a firmware program, to the point that it becomes > > useless without it, it's still the same program; but it still >

Re: non-free license review + question for ftp-master

2006-10-29 Thread Ben Finney
SAGREE = -- \"The whole area of [treating source code as intellectual | `\property] is almost assuring a customer that you are not going | _o__)to do any innovation in the future." -- Gary Barnett | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: non-free license review + question for ftp-master

2006-10-29 Thread Ben Finney
Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Adam Cecile (Le_Vert) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm working on the teamspeak client packaging and I would like you > > to review the license: > > http://www.goteamspeak.com/index.php?page=downloads&id=1a

Re: Must source code be easy to understand to fall under DFSG?

2006-10-30 Thread Ben Finney
t you say, but I will defend to the | `\death your right to mis-attribute this quote to Voltaire." -- | _o__) Avram Grumer, rec.arts.sf.written, May 2000 | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: non-free license review + question for ftp-master

2006-10-30 Thread Ben Finney
Francesco Poli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 09:16:11 +1100 Ben Finney wrote: > > > All disputes relating to this Agreement are subject to the > > exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Essen, Germany and you > > expressly consent to the exerci

Re: Bug#383481: Must source code be easy to understand to fall under DFSG?

2006-11-01 Thread Ben Finney
st to see if your mission on earth is finished. If | `\ you are alive, it isn't." -- Francis Bacon | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is the University of Edinburgh clickwrap GPL DFSG-free?

2006-11-03 Thread Ben Finney
d 'Your Honour, who in their right mind parks in the passing | _o__)lane?'" -- Steven Wright | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: magnatune.com licensing

2006-11-06 Thread Ben Finney
t of Debian. -- \ Eccles: "I just saw the Earth through the clouds!" Lew: "Did | `\ it look round?" Eccles: "Yes, but I don't think it saw me." | _o__) -- The Goon Show, _Wings Over Dagenham_ | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: photo licenses

2006-11-08 Thread Ben Finney
metimes surprisingly difficult to determine. > And the second is DGPL 1.2, which I understand is not acceptable? I don't know of a DGPL. What license do you mean? -- \ "I cannot conceive that anybody will require multiplications at | `\ the rate of 40,000 or even 4,000 per hour

Re: photo licenses

2006-11-08 Thread Ben Finney
Maarten de Boer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If you want to allow just about any use of the work, while still > > retaining copyright, you can distribute your work under the Expat > > license. > > >

Re: if a package can be used to spread illgeal contect can i sent to debian ?

2006-11-14 Thread Ben Finney
itting it anyway. -- \ "We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives | `\ teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve years | _o__) telling them to sit down and shut up." -- Phyllis Diller | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: New licensing of Adobe Utopia fonts

2006-11-17 Thread Ben Finney
t Id: 4400078611 = -- \ "I always wanted to be somebody. I see now that I should have | `\ been more specific." -- Lily Tomlin | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: What is the most restrictive DFSG approved "Commercialism prohibited"

2006-11-21 Thread Ben Finney
with, in which case, the GPL is the best-understood and most-popular copyleft license. -- \ "I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer | `\ thinks he can get me five." -- Steven Wright | _o__)

Re: What does "most recent GPL" mean?

2006-12-04 Thread Ben Finney
uot;EvilCorp General Public License version 2" as a permitted license. -- \ "You know I could rent you out as a decoy for duck hunters?" | `\ -- Groucho Marx | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: firefox -> iceweasel package is probably not legal

2006-12-06 Thread Ben Finney
ertion above. -- \ "You know what I hate? Indian givers... no, I take that back." | `\-- Emo Philips | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: rat license.

2001-04-17 Thread Ben Pfaff
David Martinez CSIC RedIRIS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The WB-ADPCM algorithm was developed by British Telecommunications plc. > Permission has been granted to use it for non-commercial research and > development projects. BT retain the intellectual property rights to this > algorithm. This

Question: WM themes and copyrights

2001-05-29 Thread Ben Burton
x27;m not subscribed to debian-legal. Thanks, Ben. -- Forwarded Message -- ... > John Galt raises an important point here. I've posted small shots of all > the themes at http://people.debian.org/~bab/themes/ and I would love if > people could take a glanc

Re: GPL/LGPL confusion

2001-07-02 Thread Ben Burton
Hi.. thank you both for your replies. Unfortunately the two responses gave opposite answers, so I'm no less confused, but at least I'm feeling a little less embarrassed about my confusion now :). Anyway, I shall continue to wait and see what other thoughts are posted. Thanks,

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