Re: FWD: Analog licence violates DFSG

inadvertently break the law all the time. Licenses that require legally perfect behavior in an imperfect society with complex laws are unrealistic and dangerous. -- Don MartiThis email brought to you [EMAIL PROTECTED] by the number 67 and th

Don't contaminate yourself.

who wishes to be involved in free software should have nothing to do with anything claiming to be Microsoft source code released without license or in any informal way." http://noframes.linuxjournal.com/articles/currents/0024.html -- Don MartiThis email brough

Re: Legal Question on GPL

ssible under the GPL to just distribute source+binaries on a CD as this company is doing. Note that they do not interfere with the distribution rights of users who do operate sites. They seem to be in total compliance with the GPL. -- Don MartiThis email bro

Re: Legal risk of software authoring?

s at EFF will give you a consultation to help you get your legal act together _before_ the lawsuit happens. -- Don Marti "I've never sent or received a GIF in my life." [EMAIL PROTECTED]-- Bruce Schneier, Secrets and Lies, p. 246. http://zgp.org/~dmarti/(Free the Web: http://burnallgifs.org/)

Re: possible ITP: mindterm (somebody, shoot me, please)

iding > a link should do. Is this sane? Yes, it's sane, and no it doesn't have to be part of the same archive. Server operators could also fulfil their GPL obligation by offering source on CD-ROM via postal mail, which is a little less sane. -- Don Marti "I've ne

Re: Copyright infringement in linux/drivers/usb/serial/keyspan*fw.h

Unisys isn't exactly a hotbed of Linus Torvalds fandom. See http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1977.html for an LZW patent warning. -- Don Marti "I've never sent or received a GIF in my life." [EMAIL PROTECTED]-- Bruce Schneier, Secrets and Lies, p. 246. ht

Re: New idea for finessing patent issues (was: lame (again!))

rmats, and helps make it possible to use free software in public or in business. Other patents, such as the BT patent on hyperlinking, are so ludicrous that an infringement warning would be appropriate, since it would inform users about the problems with some countries' patent systems. -- D

Re: Problems in GNU FDL 1.2 Draft

ble source. This is a major nuisance. The GPL says you only have to _offer_ them the source. If they want it on physical media you can tell them to bring a floppy to office hours; otherwise just put it on a web site. -- Don Marti http://zgp.org/~dmar

Re: Dangerous precedent being set - possible serious violation of the GPL

ers can understand. But if you must have a category for "free software to create a GIF", neither non-us nor non-free seems to apply. -- Don Marti | Free the web. Burn all GIFs. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | You can't spell "software patent reform" http

Is this really patent-free LZW?

This web site claims to use something called the Adaptive Tree Algorithm to create LZW-compressed GIFs without using any patented algorithms. http://www.danbbs.dk/~dino/whirlgif/gifencod.html Source for gifencode.c is on the page. Is this for real? -- Don Marti | Use GIF images

Re: What type of license for iozone

od field guide to licenses is: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html -- Don Marti Burn all GIFs: http://burnallgifs.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux rules: http://srom.zgp.org/ http://zgp.org/~dmarti You know you want this software: whois DM683