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Re: Org schemas we talked to be non-free, was: [ELPA] New package: repol
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Jean Louis |
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Re: Org schemas we talked to be non-free, was: [ELPA] New package: repology.el |
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Sun, 24 Jan 2021 22:12:17 +0300 |
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Mutt/2.0 (3d08634) (2020-11-07) |
* Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> [2021-01-24 20:51]:
> >>>>> On Sun, 24 Jan 2021, Jean Louis wrote:
>
> > Schemas are attached.
>
> > I see copyright notices inside and it appears to be fully free
> > document modifiable and distributable as long as copyrights remains.
>
> Read these notices carefully. The key paragraph is this:
>
> This document and translations of it may be copied and furnished to
> others, and derivative works that comment on or otherwise explain it
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> or assist in its implementation may be prepared, copied, published,
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> and distributed, in whole or in part, without restriction of any
> kind, provided that the above copyright notice and this section are
> included on all such copies and derivative works.
>
> Only a special class of derivative works can be distributed freely,
> and it sounds like some of these would fall under "fair use" anyway.
> Certainly this isn't enough to qualify as a free software license?
>
> However, this document itself may not be modified in any way,
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> including by removing the copyright notice or references to OASIS,
> except as needed for the purpose of developing any document or
> deliverable produced by an OASIS Technical Committee (in which case
> the rules applicable to copyrights, as set forth in the OASIS IPR
> Policy, must be followed) or as required to translate it into
> languages other than English.
Then it is not free.
Maybe Org mode shall switch from using OASIS infested non-free
specification to Libreoffice. I could not find those files in
Libreoffice folders. But they could be somewhere hidden.
Jean
- Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el, (continued)
- Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/01/25
- Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/01/25
- Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el, Richard Stallman, 2021/01/26
- Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el, Richard Stallman, 2021/01/26
- Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el, Dmitry Gutov, 2021/01/26
- Org schemas we talked to be non-free, was: [ELPA] New package: repology.el, Jean Louis, 2021/01/24
- Re: Org schemas we talked to be non-free, was: [ELPA] New package: repology.el, Ulrich Mueller, 2021/01/24
- Re: Org schemas we talked to be non-free, was: [ELPA] New package: repology.el,
Jean Louis <=
- Re: Org schemas we talked to be non-free, was: [ELPA] New package: repology.el, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/01/24
- Re: Org schemas we talked to be non-free, was: [ELPA] New package: repology.el, Ulrich Mueller, 2021/01/24
- Re: Org schemas we talked to be non-free, was: [ELPA] New package: repology.el, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/01/25
- Re: Org schemas we talked to be non-free, was: [ELPA] New package: repology.el, Richard Stallman, 2021/01/26
- Re: Org schemas we talked to be non-free, was: [ELPA] New package: repology.el, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/01/26
- Re: Org schemas we talked to be non-free, was: [ELPA] New package: repology.el, Dmitry Gutov, 2021/01/26
- Re: Org schemas we talked to be non-free, was: [ELPA] New package: repology.el, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/01/26
- Re: Org schemas we talked to be non-free, was: [ELPA] New package: repology.el, Dmitry Gutov, 2021/01/26
- Re: Org schemas we talked to be non-free, was: [ELPA] New package: repology.el, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/01/26
- Re: Org schemas we talked to be non-free, was: [ELPA] New package: repology.el, Dmitry Gutov, 2021/01/26