Re: ITP seahorse

2000-05-20 Thread Simon Richter
On 19 May 2000, Stephen Zander wrote: > It *used* to be that hooks explicitly for crypto-support were caught > by the BXA; you needed a general purpose help/plug-in framework to be > OK. > The recent rewrite of the regs may have relaxed this. IANAL. Anyone who is a lawyer or knows one care to ch

GPL vs QPL -- Is there a HOWTO?

2001-05-06 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, One of the programs I ITP is published under the GPL but links against Qt 1.0 (which is in non-free after all). Since that problem is a known one (counting the number of hits Google produces), I wonder whether there is a FAQ or some other text I could point the upstream author to that describe

Re: GPL vs QPL -- Is there a HOWTO?

2001-05-06 Thread Simon Richter
On Sun, 6 May 2001, Ivan E. Moore II wrote: > QT 1 is not even in the Debian distribution anymore for several reasons one > of which is this. Hrm, good point. I'm still seeing the package because I also have stable sources at a low priority. > You should either convince upstream to convert the a

Re: Request for GR: clarifying the license text licensing / freeness issue

2007-04-18 Thread Simon Richter
Hello, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > (There is a special exception for the license texts and similar legal > documents associated with works in Debian; modifications and derived > works of these legal texts do not need to be allowed. This is a > compromise: the Debian group encourages authors of

Another extended BSD licence :-/

2010-08-17 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, I have been asked to provide packages for a small piece of software that uses this licence: This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied warranty. In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages arising from the use of this software. Perm