Re: GPLed software with no true source. Was: Bug#402650: ITP:mozilla-foxyproxy

2007-02-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Ben Finney wrote: > "Kevin B. McCarty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> personally (IANAL) I'd consider whitespace stripping to be a >> non-issue. After a change that is trivial for any downstream >> recipient of the code to make (running the afore-mentioned >> "indent"), the whitespace-stripped c

Re: GPLed software with no true source. Was: Bug#402650: ITP:mozilla-foxyproxy

2007-02-02 Thread Ben Finney
"Kevin B. McCarty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Evan Prodromou wrote: > > personally (IANAL) I'd consider whitespace stripping to be a > non-issue. After a change that is trivial for any downstream > recipient of the code to make (running the afore-mentioned > "indent"), the whitespace-stripped

Re: GPLed software with no true source. Was: Bug#402650: ITP: mozilla-foxyproxy

2007-02-02 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 02 Feb 2007, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > If upstream sued Debian for violating their license for this reason, > wouldn't the onus of proof then be upon upstream to prove that they > were lying about what was their preferred form of modification? > Given that, I'm not sure a judge would be ver

Re: GPLed software with no true source. Was: Bug#402650: ITP:mozilla-foxyproxy

2007-02-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Evan Prodromou wrote: > On Tue, 2007-30-01 at 11:54 -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > >> This refrain keeps getting repeated, but still no one has explained >> how distributing a form of the work which is _not_ the prefered form >> for modification satisfies section 3 of the GPL: > > So, I think we

Re: GPLed software with no true source. Was: Bug#402650: ITP: mozilla-foxyproxy

2007-02-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Don Armstrong wrote: > Unfortunatly, there's not much that can be done to protect us from > this latter case. If upstream wants to lie about which is the prefered > form for modification, our choice is either to stop distributing or > pony up when they sue us for violating their license and prove