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Comments
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uhm, well...
by Gnea - Dec 1st 2000 00:28:17
you see, places like cheapbytes make their money off of the cd material
themselves. if i want to take gibralter, burn it to a shitload of cd's,
then sell them for $1.50 a pop, i sure as all hell CAN, because i'm only
replacing the cost of the blank cd's that i purchased.. if i paid $.75 for
the cd, i'll charge $.75 for it. nothing you or anyone else can do about
it. UNLESS the license STRICTLY prohibits this (and if it did, then your
distro wouldn't gain as much popularity as others have) then it's OK. and
it SHOULD be OK. Finally, if someone, such as myself, IS going to sell
cd's with your distro on them, they/myself should have the courtesy of
notifying you prior to burning them that they/i are going to be doing this,
so that you're aware of what's going on, and if they/i slip up, u can
notify of it and we can correct the problem without being pussies and
bringing in a lawyer to fight for us. best way to avoid legal issues: do
just that, but use yer bloody head.
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protect ISOs
by karellen - Aug 10th 2000 06:02:54
> Is there any way so that I can protect only the ISO images that are
available for download
Yes. You should copyright the file/directory layout on your ISO. Theo de
Raadt
[OpenBSD founder?] did that, and it has proven quite efficient.
There are only `homebrewed' ISOs for OpenBSD, as you may have
noticed, and people continue to buy OpenBSD CDs and support
OpenBSD by not distributing ISO images.
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copyright now temporarily taken away
by Rene Mayrhofer - Aug 1st 2000 05:22:29
I have taken the copyright away from the server for the moment, the images
are completely free therefore. But I will need some sort of protection for
the ISO images themselves (not the contents of them) to be able to publish
free versions of Gibraltar. Please could anybody with experience in license
situations comment on which possibilities I have ?
Rene Mayrhofer
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license problems
by Rene Mayrhofer - Aug 1st 2000 05:12:59
Hi everybody
Thanks for pointing out that there is indeed a license problem. I did not
want to restrict source and / or binary distribution of the GPLed programs
/ shell scripts that I wrote for Gibraltar. Neither did I want to restrict
redstribution of any of the programs taken from Debian. I only want to
restrict some company from taking these specially prepared IDO images,
putting them on CD-ROM and selling them. The protection should only be put
on the ISO images, not on the contents of it. If somebody takes the files
from the ISO image, makes a new one and sells it, it will be ok (because
that would demand some work from them and could maybe result in some
contributions for Gibraltar).
Is there any way so that I can protect only the ISO images that are
available for download but not the other (Debian) source packages that I
will put in the source directory in a few days ? You have to understand
that CD-ROMs burnt from these ISO images themselves (well, probably not
from the first pre-release, but more mature one will definitely follow)
could be sold.
I took OpenBSD as an example for the license: They publish everything
under the BSD license, but do not want to publish *their* layout of the ISO
images. Because I really want to publish free ISO images, not only sell
CD-ROMs, I am seeking for a solution.
To be honest, I wanted to work on the license in the next few days but I
really did not expect that much interest in Gibraltar. Really, I like it
but I did not have the time to work on the license because of this demand.
I will gladly accept any proposals on how the wording of the license can
be changed. If there is no GPL-compatible way of protecting the ISO images
themselves, maybe somebody has another suggestion what I can do. Please be
kind with me, this is the first license I wrote myself and English is not
my mother's tounge.
Rene Mayrhofer
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Re: license problems
by Ernie Dunbar - Jun 5th 2002 21:00:40
The problem with using a BSD license with debian is that it's not the
license they use.
It's probably worthwhile to use some flavour of bsd as your base system
and then modify it to your heart's content, so that you *can* use the BSD
license to your heart's content and extort... er, collect money from
clients. :)
Nothing's stopping you from modifying the OpenBSD directory structure to
your own ends.
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Er... no...
by Robert McQueen - Jul 31st 2000 18:48:18
Sorry, but you can't take a GPL/free software product such as Debian, or
any of its derivatives, and add a restriction about its redistribution. You
can't re-license it because Debian's stuff is GPL or otherwise free - its
illegal to do so. If you're going to base this off Debian you must allow
commercial distribution; or at least take the restriction off your page
because it makes you look stupid. If it does get commercially redistributed
and you do GPL what you write, you won't have any comeback, and if you try
and relicense it, Debian and others will object and perhaps call in
lawyers. Time for a slight rethink, hmm?
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er, actually, this isn't even legal
by Adam Heath - Jul 31st 2000 18:46:46
You can't make a GPL'd product more restrictive. The GPL does not allow
that. This needs to be fixed ASAP.
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this is not gpl
by Adam Heath - Jul 31st 2000 18:45:20
Licensing something under the GPL does not mean that only the source of the
product is under the GPL. The binary distribution is GPL'd as well.
Limiting this to non-commerical entities goes against the GPL. This
product is not free.
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