GeForce nvidia driver license for commerical use?

2022-10-03 Thread Roberto A. Foglietta
Hi all, reading this link here below, it seems that compilation and repackaging the content is prohibited by their license. What's your opinion on this? https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/10082/geforce-nvidia-driver-license-for-commerical-use In fact, up today (515.76) the .run arch

Re: GeForce nvidia driver license for commerical use?

2022-10-03 Thread Roberto A. Foglietta
Il giorno lun 3 ott 2022 alle ore 20:42 Simon McVittie ha scritto: > On Mon, 03 Oct 2022 at 19:52:23 +0200, Roberto A. Foglietta wrote: > > reading this link here below, it seems that compilation and repackaging > the > > content is prohibited by their license. What'

Re: GeForce nvidia driver license for commerical use?

2022-10-03 Thread Roberto A. Foglietta
Il giorno lun 3 ott 2022 alle ore 21:50 Simon McVittie ha scritto: > > On Mon, 03 Oct 2022 at 21:12:50 +0200, Roberto A. Foglietta wrote: > > Are you referring to the special permission given by e-mail by Donald Randall > > in 2003? > > I think you're misreading the c

Re: Questions about spacet cadet reverse engineering

2023-01-02 Thread Roberto A. Foglietta
On Mon, 2 Jan 2023 at 08:36, Stephan Verbücheln wrote: > > They clearly state that they decompiled binaries from Windows XP. This > means it is a /fork/ and *not* a /clone/. > > Since I have not heard that Microsoft has put a permissive license on > those binaries, I would expect that the restrict

Re: None FLOSS license for a logo?

2024-08-27 Thread Roberto A. Foglietta
On Tue, 27 Aug 2024 at 10:45, wrote: > > Hello, > > I am an upstream maintainer of a GPL-v2-or-later project. > > We plan to have our own logo and thinking about how to license this. It > might come to the case that the logo file (e.g. logo.svg, logo.png, > logo.ico) won't be licensed with an OSI

Re: None FLOSS license for a logo?

2024-08-27 Thread Roberto A. Foglietta
On Tue, 27 Aug 2024 at 11:20, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > Trying to achieve this with copyright alone will be awkward, because > copyright is the wrong tool for this. Instead, you may want to consider > registering a trademark for your logo. This would give you control > over its use, while at the s

Re: None FLOSS license for a logo?

2024-08-27 Thread Roberto A. Foglietta
On Tue, 27 Aug 2024 at 11:34, Simon McVittie wrote: > > On Tue, 27 Aug 2024 at 10:50:57 +0200, Roberto A. Foglietta wrote: > > On Tue, 27 Aug 2024 at 10:45, wrote: > > > We plan to have our own logo and thinking about how to license this. It > > > might come to th

Re: None FLOSS license for a logo?

2024-08-27 Thread Roberto A. Foglietta
On Tue, 27 Aug 2024 at 11:58, Roberto A. Foglietta wrote: > A logo is not a software. A logo displayed into a software does not > change the nature of the work, as free software. As long as it is a separate file. Instead, it is converted into a bitmap data structure and embedded into th

Re: None FLOSS license for a logo?

2024-08-27 Thread Roberto A. Foglietta
On Tue, 27 Aug 2024 at 12:21, wrote: > > Am 27.08.2024 12:07 schrieb Roberto A. Foglietta: > > As long as it is a separate file. Instead, it is converted into a > > bitmap data structure and embedded into the code, that is a derivative > > work and can make a differen

Re: None FLOSS license for a logo?

2024-08-27 Thread Roberto A. Foglietta
On Tue, 27 Aug 2024 at 12:52, Simon McVittie wrote: > > On Tue, 27 Aug 2024 at 11:58:02 +0200, Roberto A. Foglietta wrote: > > A logo is not a software. A logo displayed into a software does not > > change the nature of the work, as free software. > > This point of view ma

Re: None FLOSS license for a logo?

2024-08-27 Thread Roberto A. Foglietta
On Tue, 27 Aug 2024 at 13:31, wrote: > > Am 27.08.2024 12:55 schrieb Roberto A. Foglietta: > > As long as the SVG is a separate file loaded at running time > > That is not what I had in mind. > The conversation from SVG into png/ico would be done manually on one > machine

Re: None FLOSS license for a logo?

2024-08-27 Thread Roberto A. Foglietta
u even don't understand my situation. I might > wasn't clear enough with describing it. My apologize. > > Am 27.08.2024 13:37 schrieb Roberto A. Foglietta: > > Are they reading the SVG with their eyes and painting every pixel one > > by one, with their own hands? > >

Re: None FLOSS license for a logo?

2024-08-27 Thread Roberto A. Foglietta
On Tue, 27 Aug 2024 at 18:55, Soren Stoutner wrote: > > (something that the Free Software Foundation recommends as a best > practice, although it has become uncommon in recent years). > Guess why (no need to answer, it is a rhetorical question) > Trademark law (which varies by country) basically

Re: None FLOSS license for a logo?

2024-08-28 Thread Roberto A. Foglietta
About dealing with logo and trademarks (example) this projects moved from an uncertain "public domain" to 3-clause BSD license, then the Python code turned to be re-licensed under GPL v2. First of all, I did NOT have had to "evangelize" the original author in order to move toward an uncertain lice

Re: None FLOSS license for a logo?

2024-08-28 Thread Roberto A. Foglietta
On Wed, 28 Aug 2024 at 22:24, Soren Stoutner wrote: > > On Wednesday, August 28, 2024 6:39:51 AM MST Roberto A. Foglietta wrote: > > https://github.com/robang74/cloudflare-warp-gui-linux?tab=readme-ov > > file#license-terms > > > > At the end of the README.md

Re: None FLOSS license for a logo?

2024-08-28 Thread Roberto A. Foglietta
On Wed, 28 Aug 2024 at 23:28, Soren Stoutner wrote: > > On Wednesday, August 28, 2024 1:54:54 PM MST Roberto A. Foglietta wrote: > > > Cloud you please clarify the licensing status of the icons (which is > > > separate > > > from any trademark issues)? > >

Re: None FLOSS license for a logo?

2024-08-28 Thread Roberto A. Foglietta
On Thu, 29 Aug 2024 at 00:59, Soren Stoutner wrote: > > On Wednesday, August 28, 2024 3:44:22 PM MST Roberto A. Foglietta wrote: > > > Nope. It is enough that the script that packages the software for > > Debian removes some files. That script can be shared in the project &