Re: The Curious Case Of The Mountainous Molehill

2006-02-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 02:41:08PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 08:55:35PM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: Craig Sanders wrote: the DFSG also allows that the modification may be by patch only. No, it does not. yes it does. Quoting DFSG 4, with emphasis

The Curious Case Of The Mountainous Molehill (was Re: A new practical problem with invariant sections?)

2006-02-13 Thread Craig Sanders
you people love to recycle the same lies over and over and over again. i'm becoming convinced that it is a deliberate strategy - repeat the same lies and eventually everyone will just give up out of exhaustion. On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 01:42:44PM -0700, Hubert Chan wrote: 3a only says that a

Re: The Curious Case Of The Mountainous Molehill

2006-02-13 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 01:42:44PM -0700, Hubert Chan wrote: 3a only says that a binary has to be *accompanied* with the source code. Hence it can be on a separate medium. So you can distribute your 1KB chip, stapled to a CD-ROM that contains the

Re: The Curious Case Of The Mountainous Molehill

2006-02-13 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Craig Sanders wrote: the DFSG also allows that the modification may be by patch only. No, it does not. Quoting DFSG 4, with emphasis added: The license may restrict source-code from being distributed in modified form _only_ if the license allows the distribution of patch files with the

Re: The Curious Case Of The Mountainous Molehill (was Re: A new practical problem with invariant sections?)

2006-02-13 Thread Hubert Chan
On Tue, 14 Feb 2006 10:38:57 +1100, Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: the GFDL has a similar provision. you can provide a link to an internet address containing the full document. Please show me where the GFDL has such a provision. The passage that i've shown it before. i have no

Re: The Curious Case Of The Mountainous Molehill

2006-02-13 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 08:55:35PM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: Craig Sanders wrote: the DFSG also allows that the modification may be by patch only. No, it does not. yes it does. Quoting DFSG 4, with emphasis added: The license may restrict source-code from being distributed in

Re: The Curious Case Of The Mountainous Molehill (was Re: A new practical problem with invariant sections?)

2006-02-13 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 08:07:48PM -0700, Hubert Chan wrote: On Tue, 14 Feb 2006 10:38:57 +1100, Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: the GFDL has a similar provision. you can provide a link to an internet address containing the full document. Please show me where the GFDL has such a

Re: The Curious Case Of The Mountainous Molehill (was Re: A new practical problem with invariant sections?)

2006-02-13 Thread Hubert Chan
On Tue, 14 Feb 2006 15:06:09 +1100, Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 08:07:48PM -0700, Hubert Chan wrote: You made the assertion that it was sufficient to just include a link to the full document (including invariant sections) or to just the invariant sections

Re: The Curious Case Of The Mountainous Molehill

2006-02-13 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Craig Sanders wrote: The license may restrict source-code from being distributed in modified form _only_ if the license allows the distribution of patch files with the source code for the purpose of modifying the program at build time. THE LICENSE MUST EXPLICITLY PERMIT DISTRIBUTION OF SOFTWARE

Re: The Curious Case Of The Mountainous Molehill

2006-02-13 Thread Zephaniah E. Hull
On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 02:41:08PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 08:55:35PM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: Craig Sanders wrote: the DFSG also allows that the modification may be by patch only. No, it does not. yes it does. Quoting DFSG 4, with emphasis