On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Josselin Mouette wrote: > However, the Francis Leboutte mapping is now included in Debian. > This means we should settle on this issue: if we consider it > non-free, we must remove this layout (and all derivatives) from the > distribution; if we don’t, there’s no barrier against including some > variants. I’d tend to say we should opt for the conservative > approach and remove them; despite the fact that I like the mapping, > we shouldn’t include software with such an unclear copyright status.
Is there any hope of getting Leboutte to license this under CC without the NC and ND clauses or retract his claims? Alternatively, can someone generate a clean-room implementation of the appropriate layout? I'm of the opinion that if we are to distribute the layout, and we are unable to do the two things above, we need to get legal advice, and then specificially ignore the ND clause by distributing a derived version. I'm slightly concerned about this layout hanging around and then a small company who uses it because it was distributed in Debian being sued. Don Armstrong -- The sheer ponderousness of the panel's opinion [...] refutes its thesis far more convincingly than anything I might say. The panel's labored effort to smother the Second Amendment by sheer body weight has all the grace of a sumo wrestler trying to kill a rattlesnake by sitting on it---and is just as likely to succeed. -- Alex Kozinski, Dissenting in Silveira v. Lockyer (CV-00-00411-WBS p5983-4) http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org