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> On Thu, 29 Aug 2002 23:05:09 -0500, Aaron Swartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>> Sorry, but these complexities are the very things you *must* go into
>> if you want to delineate software and non-software.
> Of course, but I wanted an answer to th
On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 01:19:35AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > VCG is currently in main, but is it distributable at all? The GPL doesn't
> > consider this source, IIRC.
>
> Yeah. I don't think it is distributable, and therefore not DFSG-free.
>
> While the copyright holder can certainly
On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 11:47:58AM +0300, Ville Muikkula wrote:
> Maybe the Debian apsfilter package should be moved from main into the
> non-free category. Personally I have not yet configured my printer because
> I don't like the apsfilter license.
IMHO, moving apsfilter into non-free would b
On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 06:19:19PM -0700, Walter Landry wrote:
> > Should this be done in the debian diff, or a new orig.tar.gz?
>
> You would have to make a new orig.tar.gz. Debian is not allowed to
> distribute the "original" sources at all, since they aren't in the
> preferred form for modifi
>I think you're a little over-zealous in your interpretation. The original
>distributor is clearly the only entity not distributing what for them is
>the preferred form for modification, and that's their prerogative. Whilst
>we may not like it, I don't think it in any way makes it undistributable;
On Fri, 2002-08-30 at 18:44, Nick Phillips wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 01:19:35AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> >
> > While the copyright holder can certainly distribute obfuscated source
> > and no one can tell him not to, the GNU GPL by which the licensees
> > (i.e., we, and our users) a
On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 07:05:41PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Can a company release a binary - or the disassembled source to one - under
> the GPL? Does that make it DFSG-free? By your argument it would.
They could certainly release the disassembled source under the GPL. Whether
or not i
On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 07:57:50PM -0500, Jeff Licquia wrote:
> Consider the case where a GPLed program is distributed with .o files
> that are linked in at link time. The author could say, under the same
> logic and with a straight face, that the .o is "the preferred form for
> modification".
T
On Fri, 2002-08-30 at 20:42, Nick Phillips wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 07:57:50PM -0500, Jeff Licquia wrote:
>
> > Consider the case where a GPLed program is distributed with .o files
> > that are linked in at link time. The author could say, under the same
> > logic and with a straight face
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