Re: Bug#284340: base-files: Please remove reference to UC in BSD license and add other licenses

2004-12-06 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 18:35:03 +0100 (CET) Santiago Vila wrote: > reassign 284340 debian-policy > thanks Whooops... :p [...] > > In other words, I would think that the following licenses belong in > > /usr/share/common-licenses/ : > > [...] > > You probably have not read base-files FAQ. You are

Re: GPL and command-line libraries

2004-12-06 Thread Brian Thomas Sniffen
Anthony DeRobertis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: >> Compare, for example, a painting. If I make a painting with a 5' by >> 3' hole in it, that is not derivative of Starry Night. >> Even if I paint in complementary art such that if you put SN in >> there, >> it looks ni

Re: GPL and command-line libraries

2004-12-06 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Andrew Suffield wrote: This does appear intuitively to be the correct answer for the case where two otherwise non-derivative works are combined into a single binary. They don't magically become derivatives, invoking that clause of the GPL, but you still have to follow its rules for binary distri

Re: GPL and command-line libraries

2004-12-06 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: Compare, for example, a painting. If I make a painting with a 5' by 3' hole in it, that is not derivative of Starry Night. Even if I paint in complementary art such that if you put SN in there, it looks nice, that's probably not derivative. But if I bolt the two pai

Re: GPL and command-line libraries

2004-12-06 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 02:37:08AM -0500, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: > Compare, for example, a painting. If I make a painting with a 5' by > 3' hole in it, that is not derivative of Starry Night. > > Even if I paint in complementary art such that if you put SN in there, > it looks nice, that's p

Re: GPL and command-line libraries

2004-12-06 Thread Brian Thomas Sniffen
Compare, for example, a painting. If I make a painting with a 5' by 3' hole in it, that is not derivative of Starry Night. Even if I paint in complementary art such that if you put SN in there, it looks nice, that's probably not derivative. But if I bolt the two paintings together, and ship copi

Re: GPL and command-line libraries

2004-12-06 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Alessandro Rubini wrote: Actually, I've never heard the FSF claim that the _source_code_ of a program using a (black-box) library is derived from the library. What it claims is that the executable is derived from both, Maybe there is some confusion here between "derived" in everyday language