ot familiar with the rest of the license, but distributing an unmodified
original with a patch script might be possible. There have been other
programs with this type of restriction before. It would of course
still not be free...
-drew
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On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 01:11:45PM +0100, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote:
> can fake the e-mail. A better solution is to do everything in public
> so that there are lots of witnesses.
If not in public, at least with cc's to debian-legal. There are more
than enough witnesses here.
-drew
strictive
for the end user (especially with many of the requirements in the
"modifications" section), then perhaps the other extreme (simply
licensing under a BSD-style license) is ok?
-drew
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specific set of guidelines on what may
or may not be in the invariant sections, seems a good way to go. We should
be at least a little cognizant of the work that has gone into the FDL,
from both a legal and philosophical standpoint.
-drew
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han a paragraph
or so be kept in a separate file?
-drew
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ant text were something else? Do you really want to carry around
invariant sections from everyone that feels like making a statement?
I can imagine that if this were anything but an FSF text, people would
have an entirely different sentiment.
fwiw, I support Branden's ideas on this one.
.
I'd shy away from discussion about how we can "trick" the authors
of this license though by trivially including other code on the CD.
If they don't want their software free, then so be it...
FWIW, This particular king of clause comes up _consistently_ on the OSI
mailing list a
quot; against a written
specification, rather than to make portions of software non-free.
(Given that most of the software was already written and free, it also
wasn't much of a choice.)
-drew
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think Debian needs to think about a couple of things:
(1) If there were a trademark on a filename, would you agree to use
another name?
(2) Would this make the copyright non-free? You would have the separation
you're looking for, but still wouldn't necessarily have the right to
use
the violator
of the patents, as they have already been granted.
http://www.mp3licensing.com/royalty/index.html
-drew
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It is definite. mp3 decoders also require licensing. Argue over whether
or not the patents are valid, but they do exist, which puts the burden
of proof on the infringer.
http://mp3licensing.com/royalty/index.html
-drew
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M. Drew Streib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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lot of companies that get by on flimsy patents because their
licensing terms come in just lower than even a successful law suit
would cost a would-be licensee.
Nobody that has been in a patent lawsuit will ever question the
real value of Xiph and their excellent work. :) (not that anyone
else would ei
doesn't even
grant the right to copy, only to "use". The fact that he mentioned code
implies that this includes a source copy license, but we don't know
for sure.
This author should really be contacted and asked to X11 whatever this
was.
-drew
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e net seems to be moving towards service models
and away from distribution models, this is merely a licence trying
to catch up.
-drew
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some of the provisions of the FDL. I've been quiet
up to now on this list, but I don't think that anything I say right now
will add to what has already been discussed.
-drew
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