Is this OK to get httperf back into main?

2005-06-29 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Is this OK to get httperf back into main? -Roberto - Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 07:43:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Martin Arlitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Martin Arlitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: forwarded message from Robert

Re: Is this OK to get httperf back into main?

2005-06-29 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
[Please CC me, I am not on -legal] On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 01:10:07AM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: > On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 15:01:51 -0400 Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > Is this OK to get httperf back into main? > > Assuming that > > * httperf is currently released un

Re: Is this OK to get httperf back into main?

2005-06-30 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
ian distribution, so there is no need to rush. -Roberto > > On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > [Please CC me, I am not on -legal] > > > > On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 01:10:07AM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: > > > On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 15:01:51 -0400

KJV Bible - Crown Copyright in UK [was: Bug#338077: ITP: sword-text-kvj -- King James Version with Strongs Numbers and Morphology]

2005-11-08 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 06:16:52PM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > ( > Please mail followups to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-legal@lists.debian.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL > PROTECTED] > ) > > On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 10:13:42AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: &g

Re: KJV Bible - Crown Copyright in UK

2005-11-08 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
le-kjv-text is not SWORD-compatible. I looked :) -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto pgpdkGKrMLokV.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-06-04 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
nts are ignored (for a completely different reason). -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: selling web application access

2006-09-20 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
same thing. One is a product (the code), the other is a service (the access to it). This is supposed to be specifically addressed by GPL 3. > Thank you for your answers. > > PS:I know it is not polite, but can you please CC: me? I did not > subscribe the list. > Regards,

Re: public domain, take ?$B!g

2006-09-25 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
f any dispute. I now cut the ribbon > opening this to the free-for-all of opinions... > What about: The author(s) of this script expressly place it into the public domain. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: License review request: LinuxMagic FSCL

2006-09-26 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
anglais. > I'm no legal expert, but I seem to recall that these type of venue selection clauses make the licenses non-free. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Are source packages required to be DFSG-free? (was: Re: New bugs filed regarding non-free IETF RFC/I-Ds)

2006-10-03 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
bian Policy was > that source packages must be DFSG-free too, but I can't find a precise > quotation in the Debian Policy Manual and point to it. > IIRC, the rule is that sources and binaries must be DFSG free. Otherwise, source CDs would fall under different rules than binary CDs. Rega

Re: Kernel Firmware issue: are GPLed sourceless firmwares legal to distribute ?

2006-10-17 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
istributing > sourceless GPLed works is not clear of legal liability. Doing > otherwise may put ourselves and our mirror operators in peril. > So what? Distributing GPL works *with* sources is also not clear of legal liability. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://p

Re: Kernel Firmware issue: are GPLed sourceless firmwares legal to distribute ?

2006-10-18 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
. I note you seemed to neglect to mention that > > you're not a lawyer. > > So, do you have anything to say about what Nathanael said? How does > his not being a lawyer make his statement false? > I don't think the point was that the statement is false, rather that it i

Re: Kernel Firmware issue: are GPLed sourceless firmwares legal to distribute ?

2006-10-18 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 07:07:00PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > > On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > So what? Distributing GPL works *with* sources is also not clear of > > legal liability. > > Those liabilities occur in either case, so they're not

Re: Kernel Firmware issue: are GPLed sourceless firmwares legal to distribute ?

2006-10-18 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
ct. > [And if for some reason it was readable into my initial response, that > was definetly not the intention.] > OK. I'll drop it then. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Question on gnuplot licensing and why it is in main

2005-03-02 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
es/license-list.html#NonFreeSoftwareLicense) which would make it non-free. Is this correct? Should a bug be filed against the gnuplot* packages? -Roberto P.S. please CC me as I am not subscribed to -legal -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr signature.asc Description: OpenP

Re: Question on gnuplot licensing and why it is in main

2005-03-03 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
. Correct? I am just trying to make sure that I understand this, for my own edification. -Roberto P.S. Please CC me, as I am not subscribed to -legal. -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [WASTE-dev-public] Do not package WASTE! UNAUTHORIZED SOFTWARE [Was: Re: Questions about waste licence and code.]

2005-05-18 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
veloper of the software has the power to revoke the license, without your doing anything to give cause, the software is not free." -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [WASTE-dev-public] Do not package WASTE! UNAUTHORIZED SOFTWARE [Was: Re: Questions about waste licence and code.]

2005-05-18 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Peter Samuelson wrote: >>>Yes, I'm aware that if it's possible to revoke the GPL, it fails >>>the Tentacles of Evil test, and GPL software would be completely >>>unsuitable for any serious deployment. > > > [Roberto C. Sanchez] > >

Re: [WASTE-dev-public] Do not package WASTE! UNAUTHORIZED SOFTWARE [Was: Re: Questions about waste licence and code.]

2005-05-19 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
-Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

License question about regexplorer

2005-05-20 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
tml?rev=1.1.1.1 [4] http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/r/regexplorer/regexplorer_0.1.6-12/regexplorer.copyright -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: License question about regexplorer

2005-05-21 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Florian Weimer wrote: > * Roberto C. Sanchez: > > >>I have been recently checking out packages up for adoption or >>already orphaned. In the process I came across regexplorer [0]. >>Here are the dependencies of regexplorer and their respective >>licenses (as I u

Re: License question about regexplorer

2005-05-24 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Quoting "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Florian Weimer wrote: QPL is usually considered free, but its use is discouraged. An additional exception, as granted by OCaml for example, can improve things. Even though the license says this: "You must ensure that

[Fwd: [gnu.org #243939] Question about 3-clause BSD and GPL compatibility]

2005-05-24 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
4j/LICENSE.TXT?rev=1.2&view=markup It is compatible. -- -Dave "Novalis" Turner GPL Compliance Engineer Free Software Foundation -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [Fwd: [gnu.org #243939] Question about 3-clause BSD and GPL compatibility]

2005-05-24 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
?rev=1.2&view=markup > > ddd> > > This is not a 3-clause BSD license, but rather an MIT/X11-like one, > which is indeed compatible with the GPL > Thanks for the clarification. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Request for a sponsor for Felix

2005-05-26 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
. -Roberto [0] http://felix.sourceforge.net/current/www/licence.html [1] http://zooko.com/license_quick_ref.html -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr pgpD0lXn55SIk.pgp Description: PGP signature

Is this license DFSG free?

2005-06-10 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
http://www.urbancode.com/projects/anthill/License_UPL.txt -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr pgpZ41N37kH1L.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: PEAR / PHP License status

2006-12-08 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
lication, > but QuickForm is released under the PHP license, which is incompatible > :/ > If you are the author of said application, you could release under the MIT or BSD-type license. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com

Re: PEAR / PHP License status

2006-12-08 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
hich is GPL but also links to OpenSSL. It has an exception. IIRC, the same sort of situation applies to Python. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Is this legal? [RFP: djohn -- Distributed password cracker]

2007-01-04 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
packaged officially for Debian. > Some reason why you think it is illegal and *where* you think it is illegal would be important and probably also generate a more fruitful discussion than a simple claim of it's illegal with nothing else. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://pe

Re: creative commons

2007-01-09 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 10:08:19PM -0800, Jeff Carr wrote: > On 01/08/07 18:43, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 09:02:02PM -0800, Jeff Carr wrote: > >> That's good, I'm not convinced that CC in any form isn't DFSG. :) > >> It seems

Re: creative commons

2007-01-09 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
of our choosing about which we are passionate solely for the purpose of self actualization. All knowledge is shared and there is no impediment to its exchange. Of course, as we live in the real world and are predominantly driven by money as a society, we really can't do as they do in ST:TNG. Regards

Re: [OT] mailing list subjects

2007-02-09 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
o often read emails using a web > interface. > Thank you for reading, and forgive me for the OT. > Because it waste's space? That's what server-side filtering is for. If you read mail in an 80 character wide terminal, then you will know that many subject lines already get

Re: What should be in debian/copyright when a gpl source now depends on openssl?

2007-02-26 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
e 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA > > On Debian systems, the full text of the GNU General Public License > may be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL. > That won't work as there is no SSL excpetion for the GPL. You can check the copyright file for the httperf to see how I h

Re: Java in Debian advice result

2007-03-05 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
the right word?) by the client. The attorney can only invoke it if the information he is being asked to reveal somehow reveals some protected information of the client. I would think that since SPI is the client, they can unilaterally decide to make the information public. Regards, -Roberto --

Re: Java in Debian advice result

2007-03-05 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
warred off long-shot litigation. > OK. Makes perfect sense to me. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature