Re: New LGPL and references in copyright files.

1999-07-09 Thread Rob Tillotson
[I already replied privately before I realized this was also posted to the mailing list, so I'll just repeat my main point.] Havoc Pennington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So, I don't think a vague worry about RMS going loopy should outweigh the > concrete, immediate, and demonstrable disadvantag

Re: New LGPL and references in copyright files.

1999-07-08 Thread Havoc Pennington
On 8 Jul 1999, Rob Tillotson wrote: > > (Just in case anyone wonders, one of my packages -- both upstream and > Debian -- falls into category (1) above, specifically because I > thought that it was likely that RMS would someday decide to sabotage > the LGPL. I may be stuck with using it, but I'm

Re: New LGPL and references in copyright files.

1999-07-08 Thread Rob Tillotson
Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does somebody feel the need to clarificate this, so that it explicitly > says whether it refers to the old LGPL, the new one, or both of > them? Yes, please. I don't necessarily disagree with the idea of making /usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL the new ve

Re: New LGPL and references in copyright files.

1999-07-08 Thread Darren O. Benham
On Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 12:10:46PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > Hi *, > > To deal with a wishlist bug with which I agree, I'm going to replace the > LGPL in base-files by the new "Lesser GNU Public License", which is also > called "LGPL". Since the new LGPL is the successor of the old LGPL, I > w

Re: New LGPL and references in copyright files.

1999-07-08 Thread Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo
On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Santiago Vila wrote: > Hi *, > > To deal with a wishlist bug with which I agree, I'm going to replace the > LGPL in base-files by the new "Lesser GNU Public License", which is also > called "LGPL". Since the new LGPL is the successor of the old LGPL, I > would consider that co

New LGPL and references in copyright files.

1999-07-08 Thread Santiago Vila
Hi *, To deal with a wishlist bug with which I agree, I'm going to replace the LGPL in base-files by the new "Lesser GNU Public License", which is also called "LGPL". Since the new LGPL is the successor of the old LGPL, I would consider that copyright files saying "you will find the Library GNU Pu