Re: license question

2006-01-25 Thread Daniel Knabl
Am Thu, 26 Jan 2006 04:49:56 +0100 schrieb Daniel Knabl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Am Wed, 25 Jan 2006 20:26:14 -0700 schrieb Hubert Chan > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE FREEBSD PROJECT OR > > > > Whoops. There's one other occurrence that needs to be rep

Re: license question

2006-01-25 Thread Daniel Knabl
Am Wed, 25 Jan 2006 20:26:14 -0700 schrieb Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE FREEBSD PROJECT OR > > Whoops. There's one other occurrence that needs to be replaced. I'll contact the author, this should be "just" a typo ... Daniel -- mfg Danie

Re: license question

2006-01-25 Thread Hubert Chan
On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 01:32:35 +0100, Daniel Knabl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: [...] > Virtual Exim Copyright Notice [...] >THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE VEXIM PROJECT ``AS IS'' AND ANY > EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE > IMPLIED WARRANTIES

Re: What to do if the upstream keeps debian directory in original tarball?

2006-01-25 Thread skaller
On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 23:17 +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Stan Vasilyev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.01.24.2214 +0100]: > > I tried convincing the upstream to remove the debian directory, but so far > > he > > refused. His argument is that a user should be able to download his tarball

Re: license question

2006-01-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Daniel Knabl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As recommended, I had a discussion about it with the author. Now the > license has been changed. I think it can be included into > debian/copyright as follows: It's fine. There's lots of stuff in Debian with this sort of license. -- Russ Allbery ([EMA

Re: license question

2006-01-25 Thread Daniel Knabl
Am Wed, 25 Jan 2006 18:17:55 +0100 schrieb Daniel Knabl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > please have a look at the following license. In my eyes it is not a > true BSD license, but also no Artistic license. But, I may be wrong. > This would not be the first time :-/ > Would it be OK to just include

Re: license question

2006-01-25 Thread Hubert Chan
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 20:30:22 +0100, Daniel Knabl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Am Wed, 25 Jan 2006 19:11:57 + schrieb Stephen Gran > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > Copyright 2003 Avleen Vig and Virtual Exim Development Team. >> > >> > THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE FREEBSD PROJECT ``AS IS'' AND >

RFS: libsimpledb -- C++ ODBC database API

2006-01-25 Thread Jonas Genannt
Hello, I am searching for an sponsor for my libsimpledb package. * Package name: libsimpledb Version : 1.5 Upstream Author : Russell Kliese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://simpledb.sourceforge.net/ * License : LGPL-2.1 Description : C++ ODBC database

Re: RFS: dsbltesters

2006-01-25 Thread Christoph Haas
On Wednesday 25 January 2006 14:10, Al Nikolov wrote: > Package: dsbltesters > Description: open proxy/relay testing utilities > License: GPL > URL: http://dsbl.org/programs > Upstream Authors: Rik van Riel, Ian Gulliver, Ron Guilmette, Fred Smith > > This package contains testing software configur

Re: What to do if the upstream keeps debian directory in original tarball?

2006-01-25 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Stan Vasilyev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.01.24.2214 +0100]: > I tried convincing the upstream to remove the debian directory, but so far he > refused. His argument is that a user should be able to download his tarball > and build it from source, build an rpm package or build a deb pack

Re: What to do if the upstream keeps debian directory in original tarball?

2006-01-25 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.01.24.2229 +0100]: > People sometimes do this so they can ship something targetted at stable > (one of my upstreams insists on doing this and also doesn't want to use > any Debian tools since they don't run Debian). backports.org > "You grabbed my

Re: What to do if the upstream keeps debian directory in original tarball?

2006-01-25 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 09:53:19PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Martin Meredith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Why not just work with upstream as you seem to be doing - and when the > > packagings done - download it ... and upload as a debian native package? > > > Surely if upstream keep a deb

Re: license question

2006-01-25 Thread Daniel Knabl
Am Wed, 25 Jan 2006 19:11:57 + schrieb Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >Copyright 2003 Avleen Vig and Virtual Exim Development Team. > > > >THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE FREEBSD PROJECT ``AS IS'' AND > > ANY > > Unless Avleen Vig and the Vexim team are part of the BSD project,

Re: license question

2006-01-25 Thread Hubert Chan
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 18:17:55 +0100, Daniel Knabl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi, please have a look at the following license. In my eyes it is not > a true BSD license, but also no Artistic license. It is, verbatim, the 3-clause BSD license without the 3rd clause. (Didn't check the disclaimer par

Re: license question

2006-01-25 Thread Carlo Segre
This seems to be sort of a modified BSD. Looks DFSG compliant. Carlo On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, Daniel Knabl wrote: Hi, please have a look at the following license. In my eyes it is not a true BSD license, but also no Artistic license. But, I may be wrong. This would not be the first time :-/ Wou

Re: license question

2006-01-25 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Daniel Knabl said: > Hi, > > please have a look at the following license. In my eyes it is not a > true BSD license, but also no Artistic license. But, I may be wrong. > This would not be the first time :-/ > Would it be OK to just include this license into the debian/

license question

2006-01-25 Thread Daniel Knabl
Hi, please have a look at the following license. In my eyes it is not a true BSD license, but also no Artistic license. But, I may be wrong. This would not be the first time :-/ Would it be OK to just include this license into the debian/copyright file? Or is it a common-license that I just don't

RFS: tams -- program for qualitative analysis of marked-up text (ITP bug# 349837)

2006-01-25 Thread Matej Cepl
* Package name: tams Version : 2.79 Upstream Author : Matthew Weinstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://tamsys.sourceforge.net * License : GPL Description : program for qualitative analysis of marked-up text TAMS is simply a way of marking up documents

RFS: dsbltesters

2006-01-25 Thread Al Nikolov
Package: dsbltesters Description: open proxy/relay testing utilities License: GPL URL: http://dsbl.org/programs Upstream Authors: Rik van Riel, Ian Gulliver, Ron Guilmette, Fred Smith This package contains testing software configured to work with the DSBL (http://dsbl.org/) or DSBL-compliant servi

Re: sponsor needed (after review)

2006-01-25 Thread Thomas Huriaux
Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (24/01/2006): > Daniel Knabl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Am Sun, 22 Jan 2006 17:55:55 +0100 schrieb Daniel Knabl > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> as i use this piece of software already on my own host, i would like > >> to provide it to any other users. >