Re: RFS: spim

2009-10-27 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Ben Finney writes: >> * Package name: spim >> Version : 7.5-1 When I was asked to some university exercises with spim I used spimsal 4.4.2, a fork of an older version of spim that advertises itself to be available under the terms of the GPL v1. How about packaging it instead? I'll

Re: Inappropriate use of Debian logo.

2010-11-28 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Sam McLeod writes: > FYI - A computer shop has taken the Debian logo and used it for his > business. > Nowhere does the business mention Debian and when I sent the owner an email > informing him of the misuse and linking him to debian.org/logos - he claimed > he created the logo from scratch: > (P

Re: license question

2012-03-16 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Jérémy Lal writes: > could anyone help me resolve this license question : > https://github.com/isaacs/inherits/commit/0b5b6e9964ca That page contains more than one question. If you want to include this software in Debian you need to get a permission from the author to distribute and modify the s

Re: license question

2012-03-17 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Jérémy Lal writes: > If i can tell the author "here's a known license that fits your needs", > i can consider i answered him. That's difficult since I'm not quite sure what he really wants. Is "You may not release the Software under a more restrictive license than this one." trying to say that

National Land Survey open data licence - version 1.0 - 1 May 2012

2012-05-10 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Hello, I realize that -legal is mainly for getting advice on what can be included in Debian. However, if somebody has extra time I'd like to get a second opinion on the license that the National Land Survey of Finland is using for the dataset that they recently made public. This data might get imp

Re: National Land Survey open data licence - version 1.0 - 1 May 2012

2012-05-15 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Hi Clark and Francesco, Poli writes: > I am convinced that a good Free Software license would be suitable for > releasing data. > Hence, I think that this license, even if it managed to meet the DFSG > (which it does *not*, in my own personal opinion!), would add nothing > useful to the already l

Re: National Land Survey open data licence - version 1.0 - 1 May 2012

2012-10-25 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
[ Replying to an old thread. For your convenience here's a link to the original thread: http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2012/05/msg00014.html ] Francesco Poli writes: >> > * remove the name of the Licensor from the product or service, if >> > required to do so by the Licensor. > > I a

#681654 kstars-data-extra-tycho2: undistributable

2012-11-14 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Hi, if http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=681654#52 is correct and the issue is commercial use (and not nondistributability) how about just moving kstars-data-extra-tycho2 to non-free instead of having this bug delay wheezy release? You can always reintroduce it back to main if the

Re: Debian 6.0.2 - Encryption Algorithms and key bit lengths

2013-02-11 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
"Rishoff, Justin" writes: > Debian is part of our product development and for import reporting > requirements we will need the Encryption Algorithms and key bit lengths that > are employed. > > e.g. 56 bit DES > > Can you provide this for me? The "openssl help" command alone lists quite a lot o