DFSG conform OSI licenses

2007-09-01 Thread Soeren Sonnenburg
Dear all, the recent discussion about 'Firebird being in main' caused even more confusion on my side, as the sites [1], [2] (which I consider the debian-official statement wrt. which license is DFSG compliant) do not list the MPL as a DFSG conform license but as DFSG-incompatible [1]. Also the con

Re: DFSG conform OSI licenses

2007-09-01 Thread Soeren Sonnenburg
On Sat, 2007-09-01 at 12:05 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >the recent discussion about 'Firebird being in main' caused even more > >confusion on my side, as the sites [1], [2] (which I consider the > >debian-official statement wrt. which license is DFSG compliant) do no

Re: DFSG conform OSI licenses

2007-09-03 Thread Soeren Sonnenburg
On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 21:56 +0100, MJ Ray wrote: > Soeren Sonnenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 2007-09-01 at 12:05 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > > The only official statements about DFSG compliance are made by the > > > ftpmasters. > > &g

Re: DFSG conform OSI licenses

2007-09-08 Thread Soeren Sonnenburg
On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 22:37 +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: > On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 20:56:23 +0200 Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > > [...] > > Anyway I below quote both the OSI open source definition and DFSG and > > as no one pointed me to any analysis on what could cause > >

Re: DFSG conform OSI licenses

2007-09-08 Thread Soeren Sonnenburg
On Sat, 2007-09-08 at 15:18 +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: > On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 20:13:56 -0700 Rick Moen wrote: > > > Quoting Francesco Poli ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > [Comparison of DFSG and OSD:] > > > > > OSI based its OSD on the DFSG > > > > More specifically, Bruce Perens wrote > [...]