Re: GPL + question

2015-05-30 Thread Riley Baird
On Sat, 30 May 2015 23:24:53 +0200 Ángel González keis...@gmail.com wrote: On 30/05/15 03:30, Riley Baird wrote: Only the copyright holder can change what a *work* is licensed as. Unless the copyright holder grants the permission to do so, I would say... Let's say I hold copyright on a

Re: GPL + question

2015-05-30 Thread Riley Baird
I'm not sure that you can grant the right of enforcing the license to someone else, I suspect that for legal litigation you may need to represent the copyright owner. That's what I meant; I probably didn't word it clearly, though. pgp4w78cg1zYD.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: GPL + question

2015-05-30 Thread Ángel González
On 30/05/15 03:30, Riley Baird wrote: Only the copyright holder can change what a *work* is licensed as. Unless the copyright holder grants the permission to do so, I would say... Let's say I hold copyright on a work, and I grant someone else permission to change the license of a work. Who

Re: DFSG-ness of two

2015-05-30 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, May 30, 2015 at 11:26:59AM +1000, Riley Baird a écrit : - 3. You may not have any income from distributing this source -(or altered version of it) to other developers. When You -use this product in a comercial package, the source may -not be charged

Re: DFSG-ness of two

2015-05-30 Thread Riley Baird
- 3. You may not have any income from distributing this source -(or altered version of it) to other developers. When You -use this product in a comercial package, the source may -not be charged seperatly. But a developer doesn't have the freedom to sell

Re: DFSG-ness of two

2015-05-30 Thread Riley Baird
- 3. You may not have any income from distributing this source -(or altered version of it) to other developers. When You -use this product in a comercial package, the source may -not be charged seperatly. The two sentences can not be dissociated:

Re: GPL + question

2015-05-30 Thread Ángel González
On 31/05/15 00:10, Riley Baird wrote: On Sat, 30 May 2015 23:24:53 +0200 Ángel Gonzálezkeis...@gmail.com wrote: IMHO you would be the one responsible for enforcing the license... Exactly. So, if a work is originally licensed under GPL-2+ and Person A makes a copy and gives it to Person B

Re: DFSG-ness of two

2015-05-30 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, May 31, 2015 at 11:04:32AM +1000, Riley Baird a écrit : - 3. You may not have any income from distributing this source -(or altered version of it) to other developers. When You -use this product in a comercial package, the source may -not be charged

Re: GPL + question

2015-05-30 Thread Ole Streicher
Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes: If it were me, I would give the benefit of the doubt to the upstream author of missfits, and trust him that if he added a GPLv3+ header, it is because he modified the files, as he says in the README. When I adopted the first package from this author