Re: DEP licenses

2008-06-12 Thread Lars Wirzenius
pe, 2008-05-30 kello 13:35 +0300, Lars Wirzenius kirjoitti: > pe, 2008-05-30 kello 11:42 +0200, Simon Josefsson kirjoitti: > > I believe it would lead to less problems to require that all DEPs are > > licensed under a liberal and widely compatible license, such as the > > Expat, X11 or the modified

Re: DEP licenses

2008-06-02 Thread Russ Allbery
MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't think Expat has any significant additional feature. Expat is > usually used as the name to avoid the ambiguity caused by referring to > MIT, X11 or BSD (each of which has used several very different licences > over time) and for an explicit inclusion o

Re: DEP licenses

2008-06-02 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 14:42:46 +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: > I personally think that *none* of them[1] meet the DFSG. Yes, you've said that multiple times now. > Unfortunately, FTP-masters seem to disagree with me... > Anyone who would like to read further details on my view on the topic > co

Re: DEP licenses

2008-06-02 Thread Francesco Poli
On Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:07:07 +0100 MJ Ray wrote: > Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 01:35:49PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > > consensus that we should do it. However, if no-one objects within a > > > couple of weeks, I'll add a suggestion to use the Exp

Re: DEP licenses

2008-06-02 Thread MJ Ray
Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 01:35:49PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > consensus that we should do it. However, if no-one objects within a > > couple of weeks, I'll add a suggestion to use the Expat license in a > > couple of weeks or so. I agree that w

Re: DEP licenses

2008-05-30 Thread Ben Finney
Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I agree that that would be more convenient. I don't know if there's > consensus that we should do it. However, if no-one objects within a > couple of weeks, I'll add a suggestion to use the Expat license in a > couple of weeks or so. I would prefer to

Re: DEP licenses

2008-05-30 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 01:35:49PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > pe, 2008-05-30 kello 11:42 +0200, Simon Josefsson kirjoitti: > > I believe it would lead to less problems to require that all DEPs are > > licensed under a liberal and widely compatible license, such as the > > Expat, X11 or the modi

Re: DEP licenses

2008-05-30 Thread Lars Wirzenius
pe, 2008-05-30 kello 11:42 +0200, Simon Josefsson kirjoitti: > I believe it would lead to less problems to require that all DEPs are > licensed under a liberal and widely compatible license, such as the > Expat, X11 or the modified BSD license. I agree that that would be more convenient. I don't k

Re: DEP licenses

2008-05-30 Thread Simon Josefsson
Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > License > --- > > The DEP must have a license that is DFSG free. > > I've just pushed that to http://bzr.debian.org/dep/dep0/trunk/ (I didn't > think that needs any discussion; if I was wrong, it's easy enough to > r

Re: DEP licenses

2008-05-29 Thread Lars Wirzenius
iders free is good enough. * It's easier if all or most DEPs have the same license. * Thus, it would be nice to recommend one to be used by default. * It is not necessary for all DEPs to have the same license. About patents: * In any sane legal system, patents can only by filed by inventors. * D

Re: DEP licenses

2008-05-29 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 01:51:33PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > to, 2008-05-29 kello 12:46 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum kirjoitti: > > If you could recommend a default license, that would make future work > > (like a package containing all DEPs) easier... > > I'm not sure what would be the best practic

Re: DEP licenses

2008-05-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 01:51:33PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > I'm not sure what would be the best practical license for DEPs, so I'm > hesitant to recommend one at this point. Perhaps one of the Creative > Commons ones? The current batch has some free ones, right? If we really want to provide

Re: DEP licenses

2008-05-29 Thread Lars Wirzenius
to, 2008-05-29 kello 12:46 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum kirjoitti: > If you could recommend a default license, that would make future work > (like a package containing all DEPs) easier... I'm not sure what would be the best practical license for DEPs, so I'm hesitant to recommend one at this point. Perha

Re: DEP licenses

2008-05-29 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 29/05/08 at 12:36 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 01:12:51PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > The DEP must have a license that is DFSG free. > > > > I've just pushed that to http://bzr.debian.org/dep/dep0/trunk/ (I didn't > > think that needs any discussion; i

Re: DEP licenses

2008-05-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 01:12:51PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > The DEP must have a license that is DFSG free. > > I've just pushed that to http://bzr.debian.org/dep/dep0/trunk/ (I didn't > think that needs any discussion; if I was wrong, it's easy enough to > revert). > > I'm not sure

DEP licenses

2008-05-29 Thread Lars Wirzenius
to, 2008-05-29 kello 13:09 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum kirjoitti: > Zack, Dato, Lars, could you do something about that? Yeah. License --- The DEP must have a license that is DFSG free. I've just pushed that to http://bzr.debian.org/dep/dep0/trunk/ (I didn't think