GPL 3 and derivatives

2007-11-05 Thread Shriramana Sharma
O wise ones, Please point out to me where in the forest of the GPL 3 liveth that animal called the "requirement of derivative works to be distributed under the same license"? GPL v3 does not at all have the word "derivative". Apparently this is an attempt at making the GPL less dependent on

Re: GPL 3 and derivatives

2007-11-05 Thread Arnoud Engelfriet
Shriramana Sharma wrote: > GPL v3 does not at all have the word "derivative". Apparently this is an > attempt at making the GPL less dependent on the US legal system, which > is a good thing ok but I can hardly read this text. You have to put several pieces together. First, definition: To "mod

Re: GPL 3 and derivatives

2007-11-05 Thread STYLIANOU Konstantinos
I very much enjoyed the way you put your question. Although not a wise one, here is a shot: In the definitions it reads "to "modify" a work means to copy from or adapt all or part of the work in a fashion requiring copyright permission, other than the making of an exact copy." So, whatever is not

Re: GPL 3 and derivatives

2007-11-05 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Monday 05 November 2007 05:51:20 Shriramana Sharma wrote: > Please point out to me where in the forest of the GPL 3 liveth that > animal called the "requirement of derivative works to be distributed > under the same license"? Is there some specific thing you think the GPLv3 allows that most peo

[debian-legal] The legality of cdrecord

2007-11-05 Thread Yuhong Bao
I talked to someone on IRC and looks like the only license issue concerns mkisofs. This links to both GPL and CDDL code and this is illegal. In particular, I just got an email from the author of cdparanoia that he has already given permission to the author of cdrtools to use the cdparanoia code

Encryption laws outside US

2007-11-05 Thread travel kid
Hi, I didn't know where to start so figured would start from here. I was wondering what the US laws where in shipping pre-installed debian servers to offices of the same company outside US, to Europe mainly. I intend to use ssh, kerberos packages. I would appreciate some information and pointers