Re: Free art license, CC and DFSG

2007-03-12 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
Francesco Poli escribe: As I previously stated (in this same thread), my personal opinion on CC-v3.0 licenses is that they fail to meet the DFSG. Other people disagree with me, though. Maybe a big part of the problem is that licenses which are ok for documentation or software works are not ok

Re: Debian-approved creative/content license?

2007-03-12 Thread Ken Arromdee
On Sun, 11 Mar 2007, Don Armstrong wrote: If the original author puts a video under GPL and doesn't release the source, you can't demand it. He's not bound by the GPL since he can't violate the copyright on his own work, so he has no obligation to give you anything. This is the same

Re: Free art license, CC and DFSG

2007-03-12 Thread Francesco Poli
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:41:12 +0100 Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: Francesco Poli escribe: As I previously stated (in this same thread), my personal opinion on CC-v3.0 licenses is that they fail to meet the DFSG. Other people disagree with me, though. Maybe a big part of the problem is

Re: Debian-approved creative/content license?

2007-03-12 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 21:02:30 -0700 (PDT) Ken Arromdee wrote: On Sun, 11 Mar 2007, Francesco Poli wrote: In order to release the audio/video recording in a DFSG-free manner, they should release the source as well, as defined in the GNU GPL v2. Wonderful! That is a feature of the GPL,

Re: Debian-approved creative/content license?

2007-03-12 Thread Francesco Poli
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 00:19:17 -0400 Benjamin Seidenberg wrote: [...] Also, it's very possible that stuff no longer exists. I know that when I do an audio project (quite infrequently), once I'm satisfied with the result, I toss away all the intermediate stuff (audacity project files and the

Re: Debian-approved creative/content license?

2007-03-12 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 23:06:48 -0700 Don Armstrong wrote: [...] If you as an author do not want to distribute the source (or more importantly, require others who modify your source to do so) then you should pick a license like MIT or expat. Wait, wait! If someone releases a work under the Expat

Re: Debian-approved creative/content license?

2007-03-12 Thread Ken Arromdee
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, Francesco Poli wrote: When the uncompressed form is really huge, maybe even the upstream maintainer thinks it's inconvenient to work with. In that case, he/she may prefer to modify the compressed form directly: hence, the source code is really the compressed form! That

Bug#412310: Conflicting copyright claims

2007-03-12 Thread Don Armstrong
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: it appears that some files in gettext appear to be suffering from MPD with regards to whether they're public domain or still copyrighted by the FSF. We're operating under the assumption that they're either PD or licensed as if they were, but it would be nice to clarify. On Tue,