On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 06:47:33PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > Correct. > > Interesting question to debian-legal for curiosity's sake: could the > right to distribute "partially or in whole" be stretched enough to argue > that modified versions are just various partial distributions of hwb > combined with some additional material? I'm inclined to think no, but > it might be arguable.
I think a (U.S.) court would probably piss on us for trying that. "Reproduction in part", as I understand it, generally refers to excerpting or, at most, abridgement. The freedom to modify that we seek would afford us much more latitude than that. In general, I think we should respect the wishes of the licensor, even in they are not DFSG-free. There are occasional exceptions to this, as in the case where something that has been handled as Free Software in the past falls under the control of a new organization that is hostile to us, but we should be careful and deliberate about such exceptions. -- G. Branden Robinson | Reality is what refuses to go away Debian GNU/Linux | when I stop believing in it. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Philip K. Dick http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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