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-- Cut here -- Delivery-Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 18:56:52 -0500 From: "Dave Turner via RT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Mon Nov 08 14:06:25 2004]: > > Hello GNU, > > I am not sure if something is considered a transparent copy or not in > context with GNU FDL. > > Let's say I have an electric schematic diagram created in gschem (a > GPL'd schematic editor) and is placed under GNU FDL. Someone redraws > it into say Orcad (a proprietary schematic drawing program) and > provides PNG snapshots of the schematics. > > Is this considered a transparent copy or not? FDL says that > "Examples of transparent image formats include PNG" > but also "A copy made in an otherwise Transparent file format whose > markup, or absence of markup, has been arranged to thwart or > discourage subsequent modification by readers is not Transparent." > > Displaying a schematic this way of course poses only very limited way > to edit it (editing a schematic in GIMP is very annoying and you lose > all the functionality for example in a possibility of generating a > partlist that was present in the original gschem schematic > previously). In this case, PNG is not a transparent format. It would also not be a transparent format in the case of a text document. -- -Dave "Novalis" Turner GPL Compliance Engineer Free Software Foundation
