Re: Contrib Copyright Review

1998-07-18 Thread Raul Miller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also, would we be allowed to distribute e.g. LyX source-only under the GPL? Note that section 10 of the license suggests we ask the author for explicit permission to distribute it. -- Raul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: Contrib Copyright Review

1998-07-18 Thread Raul Miller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not sure if it that black and white. > > There's the exception clause for "system libraries"; as Motif is part of > Unix9[58], and Linux is a variant of that in some regards, one could argue > (and IIRC, RMS has argued) that linking against Motif

Re: Contrib Copyright Review

1998-07-18 Thread jdassen
On Sat, Jul 18, 1998 at 08:38:59AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 17, 1998 at 10:34:41PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > > No. There are several reasons why a GPL-ed package may not meet the > > criteria for main. > > That probably means we're

Re: Contrib Copyright Review

1998-07-18 Thread Raul Miller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 17, 1998 at 10:34:41PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > > Most of the remainder had GPL licenses. But I was shocked to find that > > most had *only* GPL licenses. If that was really the case, then these > > should go in main. > > No. There ar

Re: Contrib Copyright Review

1998-07-18 Thread jdassen
On Fri, Jul 17, 1998 at 10:34:41PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > Most of the remainder had GPL licenses. But I was shocked to find that > most had *only* GPL licenses. If that was really the case, then these > should go in main. No. There are several reasons why a GPL-ed package may not meet the c

Re: Contrib Copyright Review

1998-07-18 Thread Gregory S. Stark
Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The following had no copyright files. Some of them had symbolic links ... > I think that current policy allows this, and I think that policy is a > mistake I think it's not explicitly mentioned in the policy but the de facto policy seems to be that it's

Re: Contrib Copyright Review

1998-07-18 Thread Philip Hands
Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't think we should hold up hamm for this, but I don't > think we should be making cds with these binaries on them. OK. Is this something like a consensus ? Make the CD's without the controversial contrib binaries, and sort the archive out once we've

Re: Contrib Copyright Review

1998-07-18 Thread Shaleh
The imlib in Hamm has a either gif support or not. The one w/ gif support I placed in contrib, because the library itself is LGPL'ed. The version in slink does not have this problem as we introduced ungiflib (which is DFSG). That is part of why Irenamed my packages from imlib1 to libimlib1. Ho

Contrib Copyright Review

1998-07-18 Thread Raul Miller
[This is a verbatim repost of a message I originally posted on debian-devel with the subject line "Re: Intent to package: GGlyph". Since this raises several policy issues, I thought I'd repost it here for comments.] David Huggins-Daines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now, back to the ongoing KDE/GPL