Re: photo licenses

2006-11-10 Thread Yasen Pramatarov
На Thu, 9 Nov 2006 21:55:58 +0100 Francesco Poli написа: > It's not a matter of finding an "ultimate" form. > It's a simple practical matter: if someone modifies a work in some > form (because he/she prefers to do so), but only distributes another > form (which is generated from the other one), th

Re: Clarification about the octave-gpcl licensing conditions

2006-11-10 Thread Rafael Laboissiere
* Rafael Laboissiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-11-09 10:59]: > (4) How would the situation be if Octave were released under the LGPL? I investigated this issue further and discovered that R (www.r-project.org), which is released under the GPL, faced the same problem years ago. R operates under t

Re: Clarification about the octave-gpcl licensing conditions

2006-11-10 Thread John W. Eaton
On 10-Nov-2006, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: | This is possible thanks to the changes made in the R licensing terms. From | the announcement of the change (2001-Feb-05): | | It came to our attention that some projects are interpreting GPL to | mean that compiling against the header files or

Re: Clarification about the octave-gpcl licensing conditions

2006-11-10 Thread John W. Eaton
On 10-Nov-2006, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: | I tend to think that such a change in Octave would be beneficial in many | aspects, including for fostering the use of Octave in academia. I have | already written Octave bindings for the CGAL (www.cgal.org) and the | Cubpack++ (www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~n

Re: photo licenses

2006-11-10 Thread Francesco Poli
On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 12:04:28 +0200 Yasen Pramatarov wrote: > > I guess my concern was that people could just start requiring large > and unedited images. But you're right - the requirement will adjust > itself according to the needs of the community :) Just like it got > with the software source.