Bug#301527: ITP: mazeofgalious -- The Maze of Galious

2005-07-13 Thread Michael K. Edwards
Added debian-legal; please drop debian-devel on follow-ups. On 7/9/05, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It is still using a copyrighted/trademarked (don't know which) name > > There is no such thing as a copyrighted name. The name does appear to have > been a trademark at one time, but

Bug#316487: debian-installer-manual: Missing copyright credit: Karsten M. Self for section C.4

2005-07-01 Thread Michael K. Edwards
IANAL, IANADD, but it's hard for me to imagine that there is any sensible or just way to resolve this other than to credit Karsten with a significant contribution to the Guide. Such a guide is of course largely factual and could bear many resemblances to Karsten's without constituting plagiarism o

Bug#309257: Bug #309257: libpano12: patent problems

2005-06-21 Thread Michael K. Edwards
The senior patent holder is presumably now Ford Oxaal, who discusses his licensing policy, his relationship to iPIX, and the status of Helmut Dersch's "PT toolset" at http://www.pictosphere.com/kwx/faq.html . I have made no attempt to evaluate the strength of his patents in light of the prior art,

Bug#207932: Statement that all of Debian needs to be Free?

2005-06-17 Thread Michael K. Edwards
On 6/17/05, Jérôme Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Glenn Maynard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> etc/{CENSORSHIP,copying.paper,INTERVIEW,LINUX-GNU,THE-GNU-PROJECT,WHY-FREE} > > > > only "copying.paper" sounds like a license; the rest are simply documents, > > which must be DFSG-free to be i

Bug#310994: ITP: openttd -- open source clone of the Microprose game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe"

2005-05-27 Thread Michael K. Edwards
On 5/27/05, Matthijs Kooijman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That's correct; and, with or without that dependency, OpenTTD > > infringes the copyright on Transport Tycoon Deluxe under a "mise en > > scene" theory, as discussed on debian-legal. (Not to say there's a > What do you mean by that exact

Bug#310994: ITP: openttd -- open source clone of the Microprose game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe"

2005-05-27 Thread Michael K. Edwards
On 5/27/05, Reinhard Tartler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/27/05, Matthijs Kooijman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: Matthijs Kooijman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > * Package name: openttd > > Version : 0.4.0.1 > > Upstream Author

Bug#295480: /etc/init.d/autofs stop fails, breaks package (fix included)

2005-02-16 Thread Michael K. Edwards
#! /bin/sh set -e match=`echo foo | grep -E bar` if [ "x$match" != 'x' ]; then echo foo is bar fi echo we get here fails with /bin/bash and /bin/dash Cheers, - Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#295480: /etc/init.d/autofs stop fails, breaks package (fix included)

2005-02-15 Thread Michael K. Edwards
Package: autofs Version: 4.1.3+4.1.4beta2-1 Severity: important Lines in /etc/init.d/autofs which contain "grep -E" (e. g., in umount_loopback) cause the script to fail if the pattern doesn't match (e. g., if there is a non-autofs loopback mount live at the time that /etc/init.d/autofs stop is ru