Questions about liblouis

2008-02-26 Thread Eitan Isaacson
Hi, I am trying to get liblouis[1] packaged and in a Debian repository. Liblouis comes with a few extra permissions and restrictions that I have been told don't jive with the Debian Social Contract. Could somebody give insight on this? And possibly tell me what needs to be done for liblouis to com

Re: Questions about liblouis

2008-02-26 Thread John Halton
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 02:29:05PM -0800, Eitan Isaacson wrote: > 3. The translation tables that are read at run-time are considered > part of this code and are under the terms of the GPL. Any changes to > these tables and any additional tables that are created for use by > this code must be made p

Re: Questions about liblouis

2008-02-26 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
[removed a lot of Ccs] Hi! You wrote: > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 02:29:05PM -0800, Eitan Isaacson wrote: > > 3. The translation tables that are read at run-time are considered > > part of this code and are under the terms of the GPL. Any changes to > > these tables and any additional tables that

Re: Questions about liblouis

2008-02-26 Thread Eitan Isaacson
Hey, > > Eitan, if you could get upstream to just licence the translation tables > under a GPL copyleft license (if that is indeed their intention), they > can drop the extra restriction and the package should (afaics) be > suitable for main. > The translation tables that are shipped with liblo

Re: Questions about liblouis

2008-02-26 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Eitan Isaacson wrote: > "You are right that I insisted on tables being made part of the open > source archive. A translator without tables is not very useful. The > major reason that *** supported development of an open source > translator was to encourage others throughout the

Re: Questions about liblouis

2008-02-26 Thread Francesco Poli
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:29:05 -0800 Eitan Isaacson wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to get liblouis[1] packaged and in a Debian repository. > Liblouis comes with a few extra permissions and restrictions that I have > been told don't jive with the Debian Social Contract. [...] > The language of the GPL

Re: Questions about liblouis

2008-02-26 Thread John J. Boyer
I don't understand why requiring that translation tables should be publicly available makes the software non-free. After all, isn't this exactly what the GPL requires for code. John On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:40:39PM +, John Halton wrote: > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 02:29:05PM -0800, Eitan Is

Re: Questions about liblouis

2008-02-26 Thread Ben Finney
"John J. Boyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't understand why requiring that translation tables should be > publicly available makes the software non-free. After all, isn't > this exactly what the GPL requires for code. No, the GPL requires that every recipient be able to get the correspon