Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 4/14/06, Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Changes (by [EMAIL PROTECTED]): >>> Would another editor look at Cdrtools and read the part about violating >>> the GPL? This applies to the first patch on that page. I don't have a >>> problem applying the patch, but want to know what other think. >> I looked, but couldn't find the issue. Can you help narrow it down please. > > The problem is that Joerg Schilling has put the รถ and some other > German characters from the ISO-8859-1 character set in the files. > Alexander has a patch to convert them to characters readable in any > locale. Unfortunately, the characters are in the Copyright section, > and altering the Copyright is a violation of the GPL.
I assume you are referring to paragraph 1 of the GPL: "1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty; and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License along with the Program." The issue seems to be the "keep intact" phrase. By making the change to support locales, we *are* keeping the copyright intact. We are making it readable in other locales, although it is not a bit-by-bit copy. The strict interpretation would mean that the copyright could not be translated to EBCDIC for systems that use that character code set. This is silly. In fact, we are not making the change and distributing the binary code. We just are telling users how to make the change to be readable! Go ahead and include the patch. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-book FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
