inaccurate upstream copyright notice

2008-02-29 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Dear legal aware folks, I have recently adopted [1]gimp-gap. While reviewing it, I noticed that the copyright notice written on almost every file is inaccurate. It reads THE GIMP -- an image manipulation program Copyright (C) 1995 Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis. Everything in there

GPL compatibility with other licenses

2008-03-28 Thread Thibaut Paumard
ml Thanks in advance for any advice, Regards, Thibaut. copyright Description: Binary data -- Dr Thibaut Paumard | LESIA/CNRS - B. Lyot (n°6) Tel: +33 1 45 07 75 45 | Observatoire de Paris - Section de Meudon Fax: +33 1 45 07 79 17 | 5, Place Jules Janssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 92195 ME

Bug#565884: Please include CeCILL* licenses in common-licenses

2010-01-19 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Package: base-files Version: 5.0.0 Severity: wishlist Hi, there is a growing body of packages (or at least files) under [1]CeCILL license in the archive. The CeCILL licenses are wordy and the project would benefit from having them in /usr/share/common-licenses. [1] http://www.cecill.info/licen

Re: Bug#565884: Please include CeCILL* licenses in common-licenses

2010-01-20 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Le 20 janv. 10 à 11:10, MJ Ray a écrit : Thibaut Paumard suggested: there is a growing body of packages (or at least files) under [1]CeCILL license in the archive. [...] [1] http://www.cecill.info/licences.en.html Roughly how many packages/files are under the licence? It turns out I&#x

Re: CMU LTI Licence

2010-01-22 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Hi, I think it's mostly a (4-clause) BSD license, only the name of the institute has changed. The 5th clause is new, but redundant with the rest. Le 22 janv. 10 à 11:49, Ben Finney a écrit : ## 5. Any commercial, public or published work that uses this data ## ## must contain

Re: Inappropriate use of Debian logo.

2010-11-30 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Hi, Le 30/11/10 23:46, Ken Arromdee a écrit : > But copyright doesn't apply to independent invention, which he claims this > is, and which seems fairly reasonable. If he independently invented it we > only have a trademark claim; if we don't have a trademark claim we have > none. IANAL, but as f

Re: Share Scratch, but restrict the use of trademarks

2011-09-30 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Dear Amos, Le 29/09/11 22:19, Amos Blanton a écrit : > > I'm working on getting the rest of the Scratch Team to sign off on > releasing Scratch 1.4 under the GPL v3. One roadblock that remains is > that we feel it's important to prevent others from re-releasing modified > versions of Scratch with

Re: Bug#669016: RFS: gyoto/0.0.1-1 [ITP] -- general relativistic ray-tracing and orbit computation

2012-04-16 Thread Thibaut Paumard
In response to: bugs.debian.org/669016 Software homepage mentioned below: http://gyoto.obspm.fr/ Le 16/04/12 17:38, Etienne Millon a écrit : > Hello, > > I just had a quick look at the website : > >> We also request that Gyoto modifications, extensions or plug-ins >> leading to a scientific pub

Re: Bug#669016: RFS: gyoto/0.0.1-1 [ITP] -- general relativistic ray-tracing and orbit computation

2012-04-16 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Le 16/04/12 18:09, Thibaut Paumard a écrit : > In response to: bugs.debian.org/669016 > Software homepage mentioned below: http://gyoto.obspm.fr/ > > Le 16/04/12 17:38, Etienne Millon a écrit : >> >>> We also request that Gyoto modifications, extensions or plug-ins

Re: Bug#698019: libav: the effective GPL-licensed status of the binary packages should be clearly documented

2013-01-15 Thread Thibaut Paumard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Le 14/01/2013 23:45, Francesco Poli a écrit : > On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 11:13:48 +0100 Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > >> Quoting Charles Plessy (2013-01-14 02:55:38) >>> On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 11:43 PM, Francesco Poli (wintermute) > > I think that

Re: Bug#698019: libav: the effective GPL-licensed status of the binary packages should be clearly documented

2013-01-15 Thread Thibaut Paumard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Le 15/01/2013 14:41, Jonas Smedegaard a écrit : > Quoting Thibaut Paumard (2013-01-14 23:29:40) >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 >> >> Le 14/01/2013 23:45, Francesco Poli a écrit : >>> On Mon, 14

Re: Unteralterbach visual novel

2014-03-10 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Hi, IANAL, but this discussion has got me wondering were we should draw the line. Summary: in my opinion, if you intend on uploading a package which as fair chances of being classified as pornography *somewhere*, please don't. Argumentation follows (Nils, obviously I'm not meaning you by "you"):

Re: Unteralterbach visual novel

2014-03-10 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Hi, Le 10/03/2014 21:12, Christoph Biedl a écrit : > Paul Tagliamonte wrote... > >> On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 08:31:24PM +0100, Christoph Biedl wrote: >>> Thibaut Paumard wrote... >>> >>>> IANAL, but this discussion has got me wondering were we should draw

Re: FYI: debian-legal is discussing the inclusion in the Debian archive of "erotic" interactive fiction depicting the sexual abuse of children

2014-03-11 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Le 11/03/2014 20:10, Sam Kuper a écrit : > My point was that if legal (in some jurisdictions) and literary > discussions of abuse are completely excluded from Debian, then an act > of censorship has been performed, which may itself be viewed as a real > - though different - harm. No. Deciding to

Re: Lintian privacy-breach-logo

2014-04-10 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Le 10/04/2014 14:18, Paul Wise a écrit : > On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda wrote: > >> I'm packaging libpcl [1] and lintian show a message about privacy-breach-logo >> and privacy-breach-generic. > > This question is off-topic on debian-legal, please contact the > debia

Re: Lintian privacy-breach-logo

2014-04-10 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Le 10/04/2014 13:40, Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda a écrit : > Hi, > > I'm packaging libpcl [1] and lintian show a message about privacy-breach-logo > and privacy-breach-generic. > > About the privacy-breach-generic is clear, the documentation has a link to en > external webpage with a file. For in

Re: Is it allowed to change license statement? [Was: Requesting sponsorship for Catalan Festival support]

2014-05-26 Thread Thibaut Paumard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Le 25/05/2014 22:01, Paul Gevers a écrit : > Hi Sergio, debian-legal > > Sergio, sorry to annoy you (one last time I hope) with this > license. > > On 21-05-14 00:54, Sergio Oller wrote: >> I have standarized to "Festvox". Given that the changes we

Re: Free as in speech, but not as in beer

2015-03-30 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Hi, Le 25/03/2015 18:30, Paul van der Vlis a écrit : > >> They're probably doing some crazy AGPL bits on top of more restrictively >> licensed bits; since they're the copyright holder, they can do that, but >> it may mean that no one else can actually use and/or distribute the >> code. > > No,