On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 05:47:55PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > there are two available layouts for French Dvorak keyboards. One of > them, which is the cause of my concern, was written by Francis Leboutte, > and was originally distributed as a (non-free) Windows driver.
> I started then to make another implementation of the same mapping, for > X11. It soon turned out that the mapping forces to use dead keys, which > sucks, so I used a variant that removes this need. Several people asked > me of a French Dvorak layout, so I started to distribute it under the > X11 license, and it finally ended up in the official X.org tarballs. > Later, Francis Leboutte started to license the *layout* (not only the > Windows driver) under a clearly non-free license (CC-NC-ND), and asked > X.org to remove the driver, arguing that the X11-licensed version is > illegal, being a derivative work of his layout. The X.org guys finally > agreed to distribute the original variant instead, with the following > licensing header: > // Licence : X11 (the layout itself is released under CC-NC-ND licence) What in a keyboard layout is claimed to be original expression? Unless there are copyrightable comments, which can be stripped out, I don't think there's anything here that we should recognize as covered by copyright at all. Keep the keyboard mapping we currently have in X if it's useful (correcting the claim that there are restrictions on modification), or replace it with one that works better for the users. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
