Re: Re: Policy on Binary Firmware Fetching in Main (e.g. foo2zjs)

2007-11-12 Thread John Halton
On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 08:20:53PM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: > does getweb function correctly if the external files are unable to > be downloaded? if the answer is no, then the script must be > considered to depend on those files. and since those external files > contain non-free data, then the

Re: Re: Policy on Binary Firmware Fetching in Main (e.g. foo2zjs)

2007-11-12 Thread Michael Gilbert
and since getweb depends on non-free software and is a part of the package, foo2zjs as a whole is considered to depend on non-free software. No. getweb *downloads* and copies some non-free software, it does not depend on it. does getweb function correctly if the external files are unable to b

Re: Re: Policy on Binary Firmware Fetching in Main (e.g. foo2zjs)

2007-11-12 Thread Michael Gilbert
You are missing the point: some printers may or may not work, but the program itself still has the same capabilities and is not influenced by what getweb does. that's why it is ok for most of the program to be in main. its just getweb that depends on non-free data. this could easily be remedi

Java, GPL and CDDL

2007-11-12 Thread Yves Combe
Hello, I am wondering if Java GPLed application can link with CDDL classes? Case looks like the cdrecord question i saw in the archive. The case is in CarMetal (geometrical program derived from the wondeful CaR from René Grothman) http://db-maths.nuxit.net/CaRMetal/ CarMetal uses colorchooser ht

Re: Grokking Re: "rescuing" code from the GPL

2007-11-12 Thread Jeff Licquia
This is not legal advice. If you need good legal advice, hire a lawyer. Shriramana Sharma wrote: Shriramana Sharma wrote: 2. Y modifies this program to use Qt (under the GPL), creating 02-qt-nothirdvar.cpp, and distributes it under both the BSDL and GPL. 1) Please explain how this is legal.

Re: Policy on Binary Firmware Fetching in Main (e.g. foo2zjs)

2007-11-12 Thread Marco d'Itri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> No, it's a very different case since here we have a large free >> self-contained free software program which works without any non-free >> dependencies, whose package also contains an additional little script >> which downloads and copies to an external device some file