On Mon, 01 Oct 2007, Piotr Roszatycki wrote: > 2007/10/1, Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I think it is because the nimbus font is released on GPL license, so > > > the source code is required. The Olson DB is public domain so its > > > license does not exact the shipping of source form. > > > > The DFSG requires us to ship the source though. Clause 2. > > I read: "2. The program must include source code". The Olson DB is the > data, not the source code. The source code is provided as a Perl > module.
Considering that the "data" is what is used to generate the "source code"; this seems to be a rather strained argument to me. [And even then, data is clearly a superset of sourcecode.] When the only sane way to generate and/or modify things like DateTime/TimeZone/America/Los_Angeles.pm is to modify northamerica from the Olson database, and then rebuild, it's clear that the Olson database, even if it is merely a compendium of fact, is the source code used to generate the perl module. [That said, I personally don't particularly care whether this perl module includes the source itself, so long as there's a clear dependency on the olson database so that whenever we distribute it we're also distributing the olson database.] Don Armstrong -- "The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim." -- Edsgar Dijkstra http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu
