Re: Visualboy Advance question.

2004-06-20 Thread Billy Biggs
J.B. Nicholson-Owens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >The litmus test here is "a significant amount of functionality", not > >"will refuse to work at all without it", although that's a fairly > >good description of a console without a ROM. > > Would one ROM cut it, then? I am working to determine if one

Re: free source code which requires non-free tools to build (dscaler modules for tvtime)

2003-09-09 Thread Billy Biggs
David Starner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > * That which is in main must be buildable and usable solely with > > packages also in main (IOW, main is a "closure"); > > Really? Does that mean that the Windows specific parts of GCC must be > removed from the tarball? Or does it only apply to programs, so

Re: MPlayer DFSG compatibility status

2003-10-07 Thread Billy Biggs
Don Armstrong ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Tue, 07 Oct 2003, Joe Drew wrote: > > So far as I know, it is not illegal to infringe on somebody else's > > patents. AIUI patent holders can enforce (or not) their patents at > > will by suing, but doing so is their perogative and no law makes it > > wrong

Re: GPL compatibility question.

2004-01-31 Thread Billy Biggs
Andrew Suffield ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > - one is taken from RFC 3174 > > (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3174.html, license terms at the end). > > Not a chance, that's nowhere near GPL-compatible. > > It also appears to be non-free in its own right. > > > I don't like the wording of "derivative