Julian Andres Klode wrote: > DISTRIBUTION OF DEBIMG TEMPORARILY STOPPED. > MAY BE CONTINUED IN A CORRECT WAY LATER.
thanks. feel free to let me know if you need help in future about the subject. > In my opinion the copyright file provided with the package does not > specify a specific license version. you're wrong on that one, it does. > Instead, it is "licensed under the > GPL", which means version 1, 2 or 3. Simply referring to a specific file > name is in my eyes no legally correct restriction. that's wrong, sorry. additionally, it's common understanding that unless you explicitly express that something is licensed under 'GPL $version, or later', it's only distributable under 'GPL $version'. or in other words, in genereal you are, unless explicitly expressed otherwise, not allowed to choose the version of the license. > Using machine-interpretable copyright can help. as said in the previous mail, this only affects older syslinux version before 3.70; current ones are using also GPL-2+ for debian/* and use machine interpretable format for debian/copyright. > Since the syslinux source code is licensed under GPL-2+, the resulting > binary is GPL-2+. nope; see previous mail: you need to provide sources for the resulting binary, whereas 'source' means what is defined as source in the GPL. the GPL defines source as actual source code *including* all build systems/scripts that were used to build the binary. as you have used the binary from the debian package, you also need to ship the debian/* in your source. Regards, Daniel -- Address: Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: http://people.panthera-systems.net/~daniel-baumann/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
