Re: GNU or Open Source Licensing agreenemt.

2004-06-08 Thread J. Preiss
> No, but filing a software patent will earn you the enmity of the Debian > developers. Not only developers... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GNU or Open Source Licensing agreenemt.

2004-06-08 Thread Carl Brown
On Thursday 03 June 2004 8:03 pm, Alvin Oga wrote: > as soon as one loads mozilla .. you have a mix of gpl and mpl > > and one already have a mix of licenses .. even in debian ? [1] > see openwall patches vs glibc, procps If you _really_ want to see them all, or at least most of them: gre

Re: GNU or Open Source Licensing agreenemt.

2004-06-03 Thread Paul Johnson
Please do not CC me. Good rule of thumb: unless the Reply-To or Mail-Followup-To tells you to send elsewhere, don't CC it when you're replying. Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Paul Johnson wrote: > >> There's not 40 GPLs, there's one. > > version 1 and version 2 ...

Re: GNU or Open Source Licensing agreenemt.

2004-06-03 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Paul Johnson wrote: > There's not 40 GPLs, there's one. version 1 and version 2 ... can be counted as 1 or 2 ?? > And the vast majority of software > in Debian is licensed under it. Check the Debian Free Software > Guidelines for a general idea of what you can and can't do

Re: GNU or Open Source Licensing agreenemt.

2004-06-03 Thread Paul Johnson
Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hi ya adam > > On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Adam Aube wrote: > >> The only "strings" attached to the GPL involve distribution and derivative >> works, and are as follows (paraphrased): >> >> 1) If you distribute the software, you must make the source freely availabl

Re: GNU or Open Source Licensing agreenemt.

2004-06-03 Thread Chris Metzler
On Thu, 3 Jun 2004 14:51:15 -0700 (PDT) Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > doesn't that depend on which "gpl" license ... ( there's over 40 "gpl" > license ... but only 2(?) gnu.org "gpl" license > > http://www.opensource.org/licenses Huh? This is the first time I've ever seen *anyo

Re: GNU or Open Source Licensing agreenemt.

2004-06-03 Thread John Hasler
Howard Levine wrote: > Should I develop a patentable extension to the Debian opus, is there any > claim against my profit? Adam Aube writes: > Not unless it is a derived work. Nor if it is. The licenses (not everything is GPL) on the components of Debian are about copyright, not patent. -- John

Re: GNU or Open Source Licensing agreenemt.

2004-06-03 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya adam On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Adam Aube wrote: > The only "strings" attached to the GPL involve distribution and derivative > works, and are as follows (paraphrased): > > 1) If you distribute the software, you must make the source freely available > 2) Derivative works must also be released un

Re: GNU or Open Source Licensing agreenemt.

2004-06-03 Thread Paul Johnson
Howard Levine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I understand the license to freely copy, alter, and distribute the > software.  Does anyone have claim against my USE of it, or my profit > with it at business other than programming per se? Yes, but only if you don't also release your source code. IAN

Re: GNU or Open Source Licensing agreenemt.

2004-06-03 Thread Adam Aube
Howard Levine wrote: > I understand the license to freely copy, alter, and distribute the > software. Does anyone have claim against my USE of it, or my profit with > it at business other than programming per se? There is nothing that prevents you from making money off of the use or sale of GPL

Re: GNU or Open Source Licensing agreenemt.

2004-06-03 Thread John Hasler
Howard Levine writes: > I understand the license to freely copy, alter, and distribute the > software. Does anyone have claim against my USE of it, or my profit with > it at business other than programming per se? No one has any claim against your use of Debian or your profit by it, full stop. >