Re: Draft new DFSG - r1.4

1998-11-30 Thread Kristoffer . Rose
John writes: > It places a requirement on those who "base research on SWI-Prolog and > publish on this research" that it does not place on others. I suspect > that the authors really meant that they want credit when portions of > their work are included in the publication. Why not try to convinc

Re: Draft new DFSG - r1.4

1998-12-07 Thread Kristoffer . Rose
John wrote: > The advertising clause applies only to distribution. The SWI clause > appears to apply to mere use. Here is the clause in question: 6. If you base research on SWI-Prolog and publish on this research, you must include appropriate acknowledgements and references to

Re: Good news: Free Haskell to come out RSN!

1999-01-14 Thread Kristoffer . Rose
Dear legal crowd, Summary: The question is whether the program HUGS released under Perl's "Artistic" license can be distributed in "main" in a version linked with libreadline which is GPL'd. Let me be absolutely clear: we do *not* want to mess up this situation. Thus we do *not* want to send *any

Re: Good news: Free Haskell to come out RSN!

1999-01-14 Thread Kristoffer . Rose
Anthony Towns gives a good analysis: > All the rumours /I've/ heard, says that the Artistic license isn't GPL > compatible. This probably doesn't mean much, though. > > [...] > > The non-GPL bit is, I presume, section 4 of the Artistic license: > > ``You may distribute executables provided: > >

Invoice? [was: Fashion Photographer's portfolio-Paris]

2000-02-14 Thread Kristoffer . Rose
Dear all, ObPrivate: I'd like a discussion about how we can exploit the $1999 advertisement fee on Debian lists. (I'll leave it to debian-legal to figure out if the fee is legally valid. :) I received this mail six (6) times so we could invoice could invoice this company $11,994! Just too good