e is GPL-compatible it is also automatically
DFSG-compatible, right?
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would like to
dual-licence it myself, under the same terms -- GPL and a commercial
licence.
Now to get the right of dual-licensing, do I have to obtain a commercial
licence from the author of libfoo?
If yes, why? If no, why not? Please elucidate. Thanks.
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izing some algorithms?
3. If Y adds new functionality to the library?
4. If Y just restructures the library in a more efficient manner.
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DFSG-free -- i.e. product A may be
packaged for Debian
Thank you.
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/*
Copyright (C) 2007, Company X, Country Y. All rights reserved.
This file is part of Product A Open Source Edition.
This file may be used under the terms of the GNU General Public License version
2.0 as
at the end.
Well actually I based my header on Qt's header. So I think it should be
allright.
If no one else has any objections, I'll go ahead and do this.
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I do not condone it however.
Thanks as always for all your feedback.
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x27;t it superfluous to use it after the word
"copyright" which itself means the same thing?
Thanks for your advice,
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reports by the end of this month, I will assume
that the list has approved it and go ahead and apply it.
Thank you, as always.
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/*
Copyright (C) 2007, Company X, Country Y. All rights reserved.
This file is part of Product A.
You may at your option receive a license to
http://boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt attached.
Please verify DFSG-freeness and add to
http://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses
Thank you.
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Boost Software License - Version 1.0 - August 17th, 2003
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person or organization
obtaining
://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses
so I am wondering whether it is OK or not. I will start a separate
thread for that.
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Copyright 2007, Company X, Country Y. All rights reserved.
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will be sufficient, I will use it.
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milar disclaimer is still
applicable to their Professional License.
So how should I change the latest draft I sent so that the same source
files can be distributed to both GPL and Professional License users?
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x27;s date_time library
Yes, yes -- how silly. I am running Kubuntu and have boost libraries
installed. Ergo the Boost license is DFSG-compatible.
I must check if I have rights to modify that wiki, and add the Boost
license to the "approved" list.
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such a terminology in a copyright statement
in a file licensed under the GPL?
Thanks for your thoughts.
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Shriramana Sharma wrote:
The project developers want to distribute a single set of source files
under both the licenses. They don't want to have to maintain two
different directories with two different versions of the same files with
merely the license headers differing.
Please examin
me that GPL 3 being DFSG free
is a very important thing regarding the future of Debian and Ubuntu.
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A license I cooked up based somewhat on the Sleepycat license (just for
fun, though I do know about license proliferation). Those with extra
free time please check this for DFSG-freeness:
Copyright (c) __YEAR__, __COPYRIG
Ben Finney wrote:
We check *works* for DFSG-freeness, not licenses. Please, if you just
want to play with licenses, do so on a non-Debian resource.
Apologies.
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nyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor."
thereby making GPL v3 non DFSG-free?
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licensed under
anything other than the GPL? Is it that the copyright owner of Qt has
granted them special permission to license their code under those free
non-copyleft licenses? If so, isn't it necessary for legal propriety to
mention that in that page?
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though the CC-BY license is incompatible with the GPL (at least this was
true for CC-2.0 as said at http://fsf.org/licensing/licenses).
Is my view correct? I can use the CC-BY-ed database for my GPL-ed
program, right?
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Is my view correct? I can use the CC-BY-ed database for my GPL-ed
program, right?
Apparently yes. Anyway, the correct criteria is not "linking" but "being
a derived work". This case looks like mere aggregation.
It's not mere aggregation. Mere aggr
commercial
license to Qt then that person can also use the KDE libs to create
non-GPL-ed software based on that kdelibs/Qt combination.
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related to astronomy that requires latitude, longitude
and elevation of places to calculate sunrise, sunset etc. For that I
found the database from geonames.org. This database has a certain
internal format which the program will be hard-coded to utilize.
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Francesco Poli wrote:
Shriramana, which category does the database you need belong to?
I do not understand which "category" you mean. It's a database of
latitude/longitude/elevation data for places around the globe. See
geonames.org.
P.S.: I am a debian-legal subscriber, so please do not
By the by, is CC-3.0-BY itself DFSG-free? It is not listed at
http://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses but since CC-1.0 is non-DFSG-free,
do I assume that CC-3.0 itself is not free?
I have not inlined or attached the text (nor started a separate thread)
since as OP my main question is not about tha
Paul Wise wrote:
Other packages licensed under CC-3.0-BY are in main. For example the
data in the whichwayisup game:
Is there a way to search for this licensewise? Thanks.
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's my Rs 2.
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By community you mean "global community",
"community of users", "community of FTP masters"? Whatever does
"members" mean?
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conflict with DFSG #5.
BTW did anyone ever visit www.dfsg.org ? (Even lighter note.)
Have a nice day, everyone.
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to refers to modified forms of the same work
and not derivative works.
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laws?
Anyway, thanks.
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John Halton wrote:
(IAAL but TINLA)
First time I've seen TINLA used with IAAL instead of IANAL.
:) Hello John, nice to meet you.
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Sean Kellogg wrote:
and apply the more vague clauses of the DFSG.
What vague clauses of the DFSG?
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ee? If yes, why?
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f the GPLv3 to the DFSG. There were a lot
of comments on this list at the time of draft discussion of GPL and I
did not follow them and some of the comments from that time may not
apply now - to the final GPLv3 that is.
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with a su
ey can't do without them...
But still the wording of the GPL does invite the sort of stances that
Schilling has taken.
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Should I file a Debian bug?
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only, into
his codebase, creating 04-noqt-thirdvar.cpp, and distributes it under
the BSDL only.
Thanks.
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that is provided for the usage of such work
* or if the above is not possible, on another publicly accessible
^^network^^ location closely related to your activities
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TODP.
I presume IANADD means "I am not a Debian Developer".
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ent test.
I'm not sure what the "tentacles of evil" test even means! What
"required freedoms" can't the unfortunate under-evil-control author take
away? At any rate, I don't believe the tentacles of evil test would make
my Sleepycat+ASP-fix license non-DFSG-fr
source code because they don't *have* such a location?
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h works under the AGPL v3 and be combinedly distributed
under the *AGPL* only, the FSF is apparently in support of this
world-view. FOSS commerce will be redefined, I guess. But really, I
don't see the Linux kernel or many other GPL-ed apps going under the
AGPL, seeing as the pure-desktop usa
on Qt for its functioning makes it a
derivative work, and it *must* be licensed under the GPL when
distributed, whether in source form or compiled form.
Please point out the flaw in this reasoning. Thank you.
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Shriramana Sharma wrote:
2. Y modifies this program to use Qt (under the GPL), creating
02-qt-nothirdvar.cpp, and distributes it under both the BSDL and GPL.
1)
Please explain how this is legal.
Qt is copyrighted by Trolltech. A license provides me rights that
normally only the copyright
appropriate arrangements for the speedy debianization of the now
DFSG-compatible Swiss Ephemeris library. (I am unable to help in this
as I am not sufficiently technically competent.)
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Hello.
I have notified Debian but meanwhile got a doubt:
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