"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
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
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
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
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
[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
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
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
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