Re: Question about licensing

1999-06-12 Thread Henning Makholm
Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you write a single-purpose GUI shell for "dpkg", that should indeed be > considered a derivative work of dpkg - even though it doesn't incorporate > dpkg into its address space, the effect is not very different than if it had > done so. And if someone

Re: Question about licensing

1999-06-12 Thread Bruce Perens
Steve Greenland writes: > Is 'system ("dpkg -command arg");' an "editorial elaboration"? From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > No. It's a reference (a concept that predates software). A work that > refers to another work is not a derivative of that other work. No, you are reading more into th

Re: Question about licensing

1999-06-12 Thread Steve Greenland
On 12-Jun-99, 09:18 (CDT), John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Greenland writes: > > Is 'system ("dpkg -command arg");' an "editorial elaboration"? > > No. It's a reference (a concept that predates software). A work that > refers to another work is not a derivative of that other work

Re: GPL: what does redistribution mean?

1999-06-12 Thread Henning Makholm
"Marcelo E. Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm just trying to make this program free software, and prevent the usual > abuse that I've seen on the "scientific community" at the same time... > (everyone is willing to publish papers, but almost noone is willing to > publish source code -- a

Re: Question about licensing

1999-06-12 Thread John Hasler
Steve Greenland writes: > Is 'system ("dpkg -command arg");' an "editorial elaboration"? No. It's a reference (a concept that predates software). A work that refers to another work is not a derivative of that other work. > If I write a 10,000 word story that mentions the title of _The Deep Blue

Re: Question about licensing

1999-06-12 Thread Steve Greenland
On 11-Jun-99, 21:39 (CDT), John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bruce Perens writes: > > "elaborations" is pretty broad. There's still room for the licensor to > > state what they consider permissible use in their license. > > "Editorial elaborations". I think that is fairly clear. There is

Re: Question about licensing

1999-06-12 Thread John Hasler
Bruce Perens writes: > "elaborations" is pretty broad. There's still room for the licensor to > state what they consider permissible use in their license. "Editorial elaborations". I think that is fairly clear. There is likely case law defining this. The licensor can certainly narrow the defini