discuss: licenses


Previous by date: 13 Nov 2003 04:51:37 -0000 Re: Keeping up-to-date (was Re: Document Lifetimes?), Emma Jane Hogbin
Next by date: 13 Nov 2003 04:51:37 -0000 Re: licenses, Emma Jane Hogbin
Previous in thread: 13 Nov 2003 04:51:37 -0000 Re: licenses, Guru -
Next in thread: 13 Nov 2003 04:51:37 -0000 Re: licenses, Emma Jane Hogbin

Subject: Re: licenses
From: Thomas Zimmerman ####@####.####
Date: 13 Nov 2003 04:51:37 -0000
Message-Id: <20031112205131.2c8f998b.thomas@zimres.net>

On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 13:54:54 +1100
"Guru -" ####@####.#### wrote:

> "I looked at the GNU Free Documentation
> >License (http://www.fsf.org/licenses/fdl.html) and it seems like you
> >must include a complete copy of the license in any document that you
> >want to be covered by the license. It looks like most HOWTOs refer to
> >the license but don't actually include it, and I suspect that is a
> >problem."
> It can be, but there are many documents which do this (outside the
> tldp), I'm not sure whether you are required to include the license or
> required to provide a link to the license, eg. web reference.
> My document includes a copy of the license, 
> http://www.karakas-online.de/gnu-linux-tools-summary/
> 
> ">And there is something else. The GNU Free Documentation License is
> >not on the list of licenses approved by http://www.opensource.org. Is
> >that a problem?"
> I'm not sure why its not listed, maybe its because its designed for 
> documentation and not software....(well GNU defined free software, so
> I think that it would be Open-source :))....
> 
> Or maybe its because of the controversy of the front/back cover issue
> (if they are there you can't remove them which could be considered a
> restriction in freedom...).
> 
> Anyway, its quite safe to use the license to protect your work as it 
> enforces freedom just like the GPL does for software.

Just remember, if you use the GDL your documentation won't be included
in any Debian software (at least not in main), as it is not conpatable
with the Debian Free Software Guidlines. As a user (and sometimes
reviewer) of documentation, I don't see how the GDL gets you anything
more then the GPL; and sometimes gets you less.

Thomas

--> -->
 
 
<type 'exceptions.IOError'>
Python 2.5.2: /usr/bin/python
Wed Jul 3 15:44:58 2024

A problem occurred in a Python script. Here is the sequence of function calls leading up to the error, in the order they occurred.

 /opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/<string> in ()
 /opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/main.py in main()
  424 
  425         if path is not None:
  426                 main_path(path)
  427         else:
  428                 main_form()
global main_form = <function main_form at 0xa290c6c>
 /opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/main.py in main_form()
  378         except ImportError:
  379                 die(ctxt, "Invalid command")
  380         module.do(ctxt)
  381 
  382 def main():
module = <module 'commands.showmsg' from '/opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/commands/showmsg.pyc'>, module.do = <function do at 0xa2ad5dc>, global ctxt = {'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 2, 'HTTP_X_FORWA...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}
 /opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/commands/showmsg.py in do(ctxt={'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 2, 'HTTP_X_FORWA...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'})
   18         write(html('msg-pager') % ctxt)
   19         write('<hr>')
   20         sub_showmsg(ctxt, ctxt[MSGNUM])
   21         write('<hr>')
   22         write(html('msg-pager') % ctxt)
global sub_showmsg = <function sub_showmsg at 0xa2901ec>, ctxt = {'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 2, 'HTTP_X_FORWA...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, global MSGNUM = 'msgnum'
 /opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/globalfns.py in sub_showmsg(ctxt={'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 2, 'HTTP_X_FORWA...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, msgnum=5345)
  229         format_timestamp(ctxt, ctxt)
  230         write(html('msg-header') % ctxt)
  231         rec_showpart(ctxt, msg, 0)
  232         write(html('msg-footer') % ctxt)
  233         ctxt.pop()
global rec_showpart = <function rec_showpart at 0xa2901b4>, ctxt = {'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 2, 'HTTP_X_FORWA...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, msg = <email.message.Message instance at 0xa3091cc>
 /opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/globalfns.py in rec_showpart(ctxt={'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 2, 'HTTP_X_FORWA...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, part=<email.message.Message instance at 0xa3091cc>, partnum=1)
  205                 else:
  206                         for p in part.get_payload():
  207                                 partnum = rec_showpart(ctxt, p, partnum+1)
  208         else:
  209                 write(html('msg-sep') % ctxt)
partnum = 1, global rec_showpart = <function rec_showpart at 0xa2901b4>, ctxt = {'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 2, 'HTTP_X_FORWA...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, p = <email.message.Message instance at 0xa30924c>
 /opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/globalfns.py in rec_showpart(ctxt={'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 2, 'HTTP_X_FORWA...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, part=<email.message.Message instance at 0xa30924c>, partnum=2)
  208         else:
  209                 write(html('msg-sep') % ctxt)
  210                 sub_showpart(ctxt, part)
  211         return partnum
  212 
global sub_showpart = <function sub_showpart at 0xa290144>, ctxt = {'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 2, 'HTTP_X_FORWA...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, part = <email.message.Message instance at 0xa30924c>
 /opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/globalfns.py in sub_showpart(ctxt={'cmd': 'showmsg', 'threadidx': 2, 'HTTP_X_FORWA...HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'}, part=<email.message.Message instance at 0xa30924c>)
  164         type = ctxt[TYPE] = part.get_content_type()
  165         ctxt[FILENAME] = part.get_filename()
  166         template = html('msg-' + type.replace('/', '-'))
  167         if not template:
  168                 template = html('msg-' + type[:type.find('/')])
global template = <function template at 0xa288e9c>, global html = <function html at 0xa288ed4>, type = 'application/pgp-signature', type.replace = <built-in method replace of str object at 0xa308ad8>
 /opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/globalfns.py in html(name='msg-application-pgp-signature')
   40 
   41 def html(name):
   42         return template(name + '.html')
   43 
   44 def xml(name):
global template = <function template at 0xa288e9c>, name = 'msg-application-pgp-signature'
 /opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20/globalfns.py in template(filename='msg-application-pgp-signature.html')
   31         except IOError:
   32                 if not _template_zipfile:
   33                         _template_zipfile = zipfile.ZipFile(sys.argv[0])
   34                 try:
   35                         f = _template_zipfile.open(n).read()
global _template_zipfile = None, global zipfile = <module 'zipfile' from '/usr/lib/python2.5/zipfile.pyc'>, zipfile.ZipFile = <class zipfile.ZipFile at 0xa221a7c>, global sys = <module 'sys' (built-in)>, sys.argv = ['-c', '/opt/ezmlm-browse-0.20']
 /usr/lib/python2.5/zipfile.py in __init__(self=<zipfile.ZipFile instance at 0xa297eec>, file='-c', mode='r', compression=0, allowZip64=False)
  337             self.filename = file
  338             modeDict = {'r' : 'rb', 'w': 'wb', 'a' : 'r+b'}
  339             self.fp = open(file, modeDict[mode])
  340         else:
  341             self._filePassed = 1
self = <zipfile.ZipFile instance at 0xa297eec>, self.fp = None, builtin open = <built-in function open>, file = '-c', modeDict = {'a': 'r+b', 'r': 'rb', 'w': 'wb'}, mode = 'r'

<type 'exceptions.IOError'>: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '-c'
      args = (2, 'No such file or directory')
      errno = 2
      filename = '-c'
      message = ''
      strerror = 'No such file or directory'