Re: Non-free postscript code in EPS image

2012-07-31 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 06:24:25AM +, Bart Martens wrote: > On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 05:01:07PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 12:45:27AM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > > > > even > > > > when portions are copyright other people/entities. > > > > > If there is a hint

Re: Non-free postscript code in EPS image

2012-07-31 Thread Bart Martens
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 05:01:07PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 12:45:27AM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > > > even > > > when portions are copyright other people/entities. > > > If there is a hint to distrust what people claim about their work, > > I see no way how a ju

Re: Non-free postscript code in EPS image

2012-07-31 Thread Bart Martens
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 01:29:52PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 07:51:55PM +, Bart Martens wrote: > > > A copyright statement does not, by itself, say anything about the license > > > of > > > the work. Since Illustrator is frequently used for producing output files

Re: Non-free postscript code in EPS image

2012-07-31 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 12:45:27AM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > > even > > when portions are copyright other people/entities. > If there is a hint to distrust what people claim about their work, > I see no way how a judge could believe a "But I was told it is" if one > did not at least check w

Re: Non-free postscript code in EPS image

2012-07-31 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Steve Langasek [120731 22:35]: > Correct but irrelevant. No one here has provided any evidence one way or > the other about whether Adobe has given a license. > > The sensible *default* assumption is that when an upstream asserts that the > license on their work is $foo, they know what they're

Re: Non-free postscript code in EPS image

2012-07-31 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 07:51:55PM +, Bart Martens wrote: > > A copyright statement does not, by itself, say anything about the license of > > the work. Since Illustrator is frequently used for producing output files > > that are expected to be distributed, it would be reasonable to assume tha

Re: Non-free postscript code in EPS image

2012-07-31 Thread Michael Wild
On 07/31/2012 09:51 PM, Bart Martens wrote: > On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 12:25:32PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: >> Hi Michael, >> >> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 09:03:52PM +0200, Michael Wild wrote: >> >>> I'm maintaining a package that contains an EPS image created with Adobe >>> Illustrator and hence c

Re: Non-free postscript code in EPS image

2012-07-31 Thread Bart Martens
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 12:25:32PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > Hi Michael, > > On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 09:03:52PM +0200, Michael Wild wrote: > > > I'm maintaining a package that contains an EPS image created with Adobe > > Illustrator and hence contains postscript library code that is > > copy

Re: Non-free postscript code in EPS image

2012-07-31 Thread Bart Martens
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 09:25:44PM +0200, Michael Wild wrote: > On 07/31/2012 09:17 PM, Paul Wise wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Michael Wild wrote: > >> Strange thing is, most of it is simply boilerplate that is not even > >> used. Running it through eps2eps (a ghostscript wrapper) br

Re: Non-free postscript code in EPS image

2012-07-31 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Michael, On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 09:03:52PM +0200, Michael Wild wrote: > I'm maintaining a package that contains an EPS image created with Adobe > Illustrator and hence contains postscript library code that is > copyrighted by Adobe, e.g.: > * Copyright(C)2000-2006 Adobe Systems, Inc. All Rig

Re: Non-free postscript code in EPS image

2012-07-31 Thread Michael Wild
On 07/31/2012 09:17 PM, Paul Wise wrote: > On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Michael Wild wrote: > >> I'm maintaining a package that contains an EPS image created with Adobe >> Illustrator and hence contains postscript library code that is >> copyrighted by Adobe, e.g.: > ... >> Does this make the

Re: Non-free postscript code in EPS image

2012-07-31 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Michael Wild wrote: > I'm maintaining a package that contains an EPS image created with Adobe > Illustrator and hence contains postscript library code that is > copyrighted by Adobe, e.g.: ... > Does this make the file non-redistributable and non-DFSG free? If not,

Non-free postscript code in EPS image

2012-07-31 Thread Michael Wild
Dear all I'm maintaining a package that contains an EPS image created with Adobe Illustrator and hence contains postscript library code that is copyrighted by Adobe, e.g.: * Copyright(C)2000-2006 Adobe Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved * Copyright(C)1997-2007 Adobe Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserv

Re: filebench: bison generated parser + CDDL

2012-07-31 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Dienstag, 31. Juli 2012 schrieb Akim Demaille: > Hi Martin, Hi Akim, > Sorry about this, but I have no answers. If licens...@gnu.org > does not answer, I don't know what else I could do. Hmmm… Anyone a suggestion on how to move forward? Thanks, Martin > > Akim > > Le 24 juil. 201