Re: inquery about "GPL with commercial exception"

2015-10-08 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Francesco Poli dijo [Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 11:50:53PM +0200]: > I personally think it is indeed relevant. > > Let me try to explain. > The term "further restrictions" is meant "with respect to the > GPL terms", not "with respect to GPL terms + any terms added by the > copyright holder". > Hence rel

Re: inquery about "GPL with commercial exception"

2015-10-08 Thread Debian/GNU
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2015-10-08 16:32, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > > Anyway, further discussing the matter won't clarify it much. The > clear result, /methinks, is that we all agree this is DFSG-unfree. > Whether it is distributable in non-free... Is subject to > discussion

Re: inquery about "GPL with commercial exception"

2015-10-08 Thread Francesco Poli
On Thu, 8 Oct 2015 17:06:22 +0200 IOhannes m zmölnig (Debian/GNU) wrote: [...] > which throws us back to the question whether software under that > license is distributable (in non-free) at or not. Just to be clear, my own personal opinion is that "GPLv2 + restrictions" is self-contradictory and

Re: inquery about "GPL with commercial exception"

2015-10-08 Thread Ben Finney
Gunnar Wolf writes: > Francesco Poli dijo [Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 11:50:53PM +0200]: > > One cannot comply with all these conditions at the same time. The > > "GPL + further restrictions" license is therefore > > self-contradictory. > > Right. But a content creator (in this case, a software author)