Re: License question: GPL+Exception

2007-05-13 Thread MJ Ray
Wesley J. Landaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 12 May 2007 16:01:25 Francesco Poli wrote: You may not impose any further restrictions with respect to the *rights granted by the GPL*. But there are already such restrictions, and you cannot remove them because you are not the

Re: License question: GPL+Exception

2007-05-13 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Wesley J. Landaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 12 May 2007 16:01:25 Francesco Poli wrote: You may not impose any further restrictions with respect to the *rights granted by the GPL*. But there are already such

Re: License question: GPL+Exception

2007-05-13 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sun, 13 May 2007 21:04:09 +0100 Anthony W. Youngman wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes [...] The copyright holder could make a new licence out of the GPL, as permitted by the FSF, but they have not done so. I think they should use the plain GPL, because

Re: License question: GPL+Exception

2007-05-13 Thread Ben Finney
Anthony W. Youngman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Adding any restrictions to plain GPL results in an invalid licence as in http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/05/msg00303.html I think you're wrong here ... (certainly if the

Re: License question: GPL+Exception

2007-05-12 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sat, 12 May 2007 20:52:05 +0100 (BST) Alan Baghumian wrote: [...] You can find the exact license here: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-fonts/packages/ttf-liberation/trunk/debian/copyright?op=filerev=0sc=0 Mmmmh, does the following exception constitute an additional restriction with respect

Re: License question: GPL+Exception

2007-05-12 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Saturday 12 May 2007 13:30:43 Francesco Poli wrote: Mmmmh, does the following exception constitute an additional restriction with respect to the GNU GPL v2? | (b) As a further exception, any distribution of the object code of the | Software in a physical product must provide you the

Re: License question: GPL+Exception

2007-05-12 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sat, 12 May 2007 13:55:23 -0600 Wesley J. Landaker wrote: On Saturday 12 May 2007 13:30:43 Francesco Poli wrote: [...] If this is the case, the work could be even undistributable, because it's licensed under inconsistent[1] terms (GPLv2 + additional restrictions). What do other

Re: License question: GPL+Exception

2007-05-12 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Saturday 12 May 2007 16:01:25 Francesco Poli wrote: You may not impose any further restrictions with respect to the *rights granted by the GPL*. But there are already such restrictions, and you cannot remove them because you are not the copyright holder. Hence you cannot comply with the

Re: License question: GPL+Exception

2007-05-12 Thread Michael Poole
Wesley J. Landaker writes: On Saturday 12 May 2007 16:01:25 Francesco Poli wrote: You may not impose any further restrictions with respect to the *rights granted by the GPL*. But there are already such restrictions, and you cannot remove them because you are not the copyright holder. Hence