S3TC patent violation in multiple packages?

2010-12-25 Thread Rudolf Polzer
, ignoring the two interpolated colors S3TC allows to use. This would also get rid of the analog curve, and thus should evade the patent properly - again at a noticeable quality loss, though. Best regards, Rudolf Polzer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: MS-PL LGPL

2010-12-20 Thread Rudolf Polzer
not restrict the license of your program, or of other software components. Neither does the LGPL (as opposed to the GPL). So you should be fine. Best regards, Rudolf Polzer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Plugins for non-free software in orig.tar.gz

2010-07-14 Thread Rudolf Polzer
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 11:14:11PM -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote: On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 12:38 AM, Rudolf Polzer divver...@alientrap.org wrote: Do I then get into trouble with the GPL, as the source tarball contains code that links to non-GPL compatible code? You can't

Re: Plugins for non-free software in orig.tar.gz

2010-07-13 Thread Rudolf Polzer
his own GPL-compatible source archive, removing the CDDL files and the references to them, or can he just tar up everything (including kernel config) and the CDDL source files do no harm as they are not part of the configuration? Best regards, Rudolf Polzer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Distribution of media content together with GPLv2 code in one package?

2010-04-20 Thread Rudolf Polzer
of the words, the musical notes (i.e. project file of the music application creating the input for the final mastering process), the instrument samples, etc., but ONLY digital audio which e.g. can be used as a basis for remixes. Rudolf Polzer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ

Re: Distribution of media content together with GPLv2 code in one package?

2010-04-20 Thread Rudolf Polzer
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 11:51:43PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: Rudolf Polzer divver...@alientrap.org writes: In case of the voice synthesis application, is it recreating or editing when you re-render the voice using different words, and then perform editing on the resulting file (typically

Re: Distribution of media content together with GPLv2 code in one package?

2010-04-18 Thread Rudolf Polzer
and a commercial compiler don't conflict has been accepted for long). Nothing prevents you from performing it in a real orchestra, or using your own samples in place of the missing ones - just like nothing prevents you from reading out the same lines of text with YOUR voice, and recording that. Rudolf

Re: Distribution of media content together with GPLv2 code in one package?

2010-04-17 Thread Rudolf Polzer
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 10:20:12PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 09:45:42 +0200 Rudolf Polzer wrote: [...] Simply because the only part of the author that goes in is his thought, [...] It is indeed the author's thought that is goes in: something that is quite unique, I

Re: Distribution of media content together with GPLv2 code in one package?

2010-04-16 Thread Rudolf Polzer
On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 06:20:43PM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: * Rudolf Polzer divver...@alientrap.org [100404 12:16]: One argument against supplying full source code commonly raised by artists, is that a 3MB large music piece can depend on several gigabytes of source data

Re: Distribution of media content together with GPLv2 code in one package?

2010-04-05 Thread Rudolf Polzer
On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 09:49:36AM +0100, Matthew Johnson wrote: I think it's pretty clear that you can distribute data alongside a GPL work without it being covered by the GPL. The reason why program objects which link the GPL work need to be distributed under the GPL is that the result

Re: Distribution of media content together with GPLv2 code in one package?

2010-04-04 Thread Rudolf Polzer
/ - this deal was made without consent of any of the developers and caused the developers to leave Alientrap. But that is another issue. Best regards, Rudolf Polzer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Distribution of media content together with GPLv2 code in one package?

2010-04-04 Thread Rudolf Polzer
[I had accidentally sent this message to Paul Wise's address first. Resending] On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 06:35:59PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 6:15 PM, Rudolf Polzer divver...@alientrap.org wrote: BTW: is it DFSG and GPL compliant to compose music using CC-BY released

Re: Distribution of media content together with GPLv2 code in one package?

2010-04-04 Thread Rudolf Polzer
On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 07:25:58PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Sun, 2010-04-04 at 13:09 +0200, Rudolf Polzer wrote: Well, can it then still be one single download package? Can the game consist on multiple differently licensed parts? Can these then be provided as one download

Distribution of media content together with GPLv2 code in one package?

2010-04-03 Thread Rudolf Polzer
, as often there IS, because of manual destructive editing steps, no such thing as complete corresponding machine-readable source code source as the GPL demands)? Best regards, Rudolf Polzer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Distribution of media content together with GPLv2 code in one package?

2010-04-03 Thread Rudolf Polzer
(as I was not subscribed, I manually wrote the In-Reply-To header - I hope the thread is properly connected. I am subscribed now.) Francesco Poli wrote:: On Sat, 3 Apr 2010 14:28:43 +0200 Rudolf Polzer wrote: speaking for a new game that will aim to be included in Debian, I wonder how