Re: [PROPOSAL] Full text of GPL must be included

2001-01-10 Thread Brian Frederick Kimball
Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > Seth Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > * Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001205 20:37]: > > > Fortunately, things aren't very severe right now. And, certainly, > > > I think that if we could pull a solution together by the time that > > > Woody freezes, tha

Re: cleaning up our task packages

2000-12-07 Thread Brian Frederick Kimball
At 03:29 pm -0700 on December 07, 2000, John Galt wrote: > DANGER WILL ROBINSON! If a task-* package only installs one package, it > sounds like the package description isn't being clear enough in the > package to be installed. A clear description is useless to a user that doesn't have the time

Re: [PROPOSAL] Full text of GPL must be included

2000-12-07 Thread Brian Frederick Kimball
At 12:46 am -0800 on December 07, 2000, Chris Waters wrote: > On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 02:29:18PM -0800, Brian Frederick Kimball wrote: > > At 10:31 pm -0800 on December 04, 2000, Chris Waters wrote: > > > > We *do* distribute the GPL with the binaries. It's i

Re: [PROPOSAL] Full text of GPL must be included

2000-12-06 Thread Brian Frederick Kimball
At 10:31 pm -0800 on December 04, 2000, Chris Waters wrote: > We *do* distribute the GPL with the binaries. It's in the source > tarball. Don't you see anything wrong with this statement?

Re: [PROPOSAL] Full text of GPL must be included

2000-11-30 Thread Brian Frederick Kimball
At 04:09 pm -0500 on November 30, 2000, Brian Mays wrote: > Brian Frederick Kimball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Think of it this way: each "downloadable entity" that meets the above > > definition of "Program" needs to have the GPL inside it >

Re: [PROPOSAL] Full text of GPL must be included

2000-11-30 Thread Brian Frederick Kimball
ave nothing better to do...") and claims to the effect of "I don't like the consequences of that interpretation, so I won't accept it." brian > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Brian Frederick Kimball writes: > >[Brian Mays wrote]: > >> We

Re: [PROPOSAL] Full text of GPL must be included

2000-11-30 Thread Brian Frederick Kimball
At 07:09 am -0500 on November 30, 2000, Brian Mays wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes: > > However, Debian is in a different position, and the problem is that > > people can and do pull .debs off the Debian site and install them on > > other distros. The license really doe

Re: [PROPOSAL] Full text of GPL must be included

2000-11-30 Thread Brian Frederick Kimball
At 12:36 pm -0500 on November 30, 2000, Brian Mays wrote: > "Gustavo Noronha Silva (KoV)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I think that "complete work" stands for every work that can be used > > in any installed system without missing parts... just like fileutils > > and debhelper. Debian distrib

Re: [PROPOSAL] Full text of GPL must be included

2000-11-30 Thread Brian Frederick Kimball
At 09:35 pm -0800 on November 29, 2000, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > [...] the GPL requires that you give a copy of the GPL to anyone you > give the binary for a program to. Interestingly, this appears to only apply to some GPLed binaries, not all (see example below). And of course it is only n

Re: [PROPOSAL] Full text of GPL must be included

2000-11-29 Thread Brian Frederick Kimball
At 08:17 am +1100 on November 30, 2000, Anand Kumria wrote: > 1. "You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's > source code as you receive it ..." > > Applies to *source code* only. We distribute orginial tarballs > which include the licence text. We are okay here. keep reading:

Re: [PROPOSAL] Full text of GPL must be included

2000-11-29 Thread Brian Frederick Kimball
At 04:17 pm -0500 on November 29, 2000, Brian Mays wrote: > The GPL says that we can distribute the binaries ... > > : ... provided that you conspicuously and appropriately publish on each > : copy an appropriate copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep > : intact all the notices that