On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 10:34:03AM -0400, Arc Riley wrote: > On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 9:38 AM, Jamie Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> > Multiple tar.gz files could probably fix that - or requiring users to > > checkout from the revision control system. > GPLv3 section 5c (note bold text): > c) You must license the entire work, as a whole, under this > License to anyone who comes into possession of a copy. This > License will therefore apply, along with any applicable section 7 > additional terms, to the whole of the work, and all its parts, > *regardless of how they are packaged*. This License gives no > permission to license the work in any other way, but it does not > invalidate such permission if you have separately received it. > Clearly you cannot escape the terms of the GPL by splitting the work into > different packages, otherwise everyone would do this. This is a circular argument. You have not established that the data and code comprise a single work under copyright law. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
