2009/5/29 Mark Weyer <[email protected]>: > Am I missing something? I would think that even if in all jurisdictions > the font is non-copyrightable, that still would not imply DFSG-freeness, > only that it is fit for non-free. > > Best regards, > > Mark Weyer
That's what I thought as well cause source is not available in preffered form of modification. But imagine if noone in debian knew that this raster font was generated from something else, then it would DFSG-free. So just expanding on that. DFSG source requirement is concluded by judging each time what is source. And this is biased sometimes as we see in this example. The model (I presume in somekind of human or machine parsable format) if distributed under free license does allow to view all parameters and tweak them. (It will be wrong from scientific point of view but just for fun "what if twist this nob without actually parsing any data for many days in a row") I would argue that is still source. Now imagine we have many of these models and someone writes a hyper-model simulator which takes all of these models and make a new one based on some cunning statistical processing....... what will be source then? all input data to all models with all the generation parameters and environments? (i bet some of them use urandam as well)???? or will the models become source for the hyper-model? -- With best regards Dmitrijs Ledkovs (for short Dima), Ледков Дмитрий Юрьевич -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
