Matthew Johnson writes (Re: The copyright of a keyboard mapping and its
implementation):
Well, if we take the position that it's not copyrightable then for our
point of view it's not a problem what the licence is, we can distribute
in main. It's also not a problem form his PoV, because he's
Le mardi 17 mars 2009 à 14:54 +, MJ Ray a écrit :
In general, I'd support this. Further, j...@debian's implementation
included at X.org is not subject to the other holder's copyright, so
I'd report the bogus CC-NC-ND layout claim as a bug to X.org.
Has that happened? This thread hinted
Le mardi 17 mars 2009 à 23:13 -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit :
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
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
Le lundi 16 mars 2009 à 11:18 -0700, Don Armstrong a écrit :
Is there any hope of getting Leboutte to license this under CC without
the NC and ND clauses or retract his claims?
I don’t think so, but maybe an open source evangelist would have better
luck.
Alternatively, can someone generate a
Josselin Mouette wrote:
Le lundi 16 mars 2009 à 11:18 -0700, Don Armstrong a écrit :
Is there any hope of getting Leboutte to license this under CC without
the NC and ND clauses or retract his claims?
I don’t think so, but maybe an open source evangelist would have better
luck.
try the
Giacomo A. Catenazzi c...@debian.org wrote:
try the counterattack method:
- he has checked the licenses of original layout?
(Surely was not a dream that give him the Dvorak base,
probably he copied layout from an existing implementation,
not from papers)
- Why he can copy the layout
On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Josselin Mouette wrote:
Le lundi 16 mars 2009 à 11:18 -0700, Don Armstrong a écrit :
Is there any hope of getting Leboutte to license this under CC without
the NC and ND clauses or retract his claims?
I don’t think so, but maybe an open source evangelist would have
On Mon Mar 16 17:47, Josselin Mouette wrote:
It is my opinion that, in European law, the copyright on a keyboard
mapping does not affect that of its implementation, because, among other
things, of the interoperability exception – in the same way a function
prototype is not subject to
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
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