Just out of curiosity, what do you mean by the "desert island test?" Mike
-----Original Message----- From: John J. Boyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 4:45 PM To: John Halton Cc: Eitan Isaacson; debian-legal@lists.debian.org; Mike Sivill; Yuemei Sun; Will Walker; Luke Yelavich Subject: Re: Questions about liblouis I don't understand why requiring that translation tables should be publicly available makes the software non-free. After all, isn't this exactly what the GPL requires for code. John On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:40:39PM +0000, John Halton wrote: > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 02:29:05PM -0800, Eitan Isaacson wrote: > > 3. The translation tables that are read at run-time are considered > > part of this code and are under the terms of the GPL. Any changes to > > these tables and any additional tables that are created for use by > > this code must be made publicly available. > > This fails the "desert island test", and so the package is non-free. > > John > > (TINLA) -- John J. boyer; President, Chief Software Developer JJB Software, Inc. http://www.jjb-software.com Madison, WI USA Developing software for people with disabilities -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]