License question: GPL+Exception

2007-05-12 Thread Alan Baghumian
Hi, I'm a member of the font packaging team. Red Hat recently has released a set of fonts under the GPL with an exception about it's trademarks. This fonts can cover the lack of Arial, Times and Courier fonts. We started our work to package them for Debian but noticed that's better to ask

Re: License question: GPL+Exception

2007-05-12 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sat, 12 May 2007 20:52:05 +0100 (BST) Alan Baghumian wrote: [...] You can find the exact license here: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-fonts/packages/ttf-liberation/trunk/debian/copyright?op=filerev=0sc=0 Mmmmh, does the following exception constitute an additional restriction with respect

Re: License question: GPL+Exception

2007-05-12 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Saturday 12 May 2007 13:30:43 Francesco Poli wrote: Mmmmh, does the following exception constitute an additional restriction with respect to the GNU GPL v2? | (b) As a further exception, any distribution of the object code of the | Software in a physical product must provide you the

Re: License question: GPL+Exception

2007-05-12 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sat, 12 May 2007 13:55:23 -0600 Wesley J. Landaker wrote: On Saturday 12 May 2007 13:30:43 Francesco Poli wrote: [...] If this is the case, the work could be even undistributable, because it's licensed under inconsistent[1] terms (GPLv2 + additional restrictions). What do other

Re: Bug#383316: Derivative works for songs

2007-05-12 Thread MJ Ray
Francesco Poli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, if the author says that it's a metal version of Ryu's theme, I think he means that the melody is the same, even though the musical genre is changed. *If* this is the case, I would call it a cover and hence I'm afraid it qualifies as an

Re: License question: GPL+Exception

2007-05-12 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Saturday 12 May 2007 16:01:25 Francesco Poli wrote: You may not impose any further restrictions with respect to the *rights granted by the GPL*. But there are already such restrictions, and you cannot remove them because you are not the copyright holder. Hence you cannot comply with the

Re: License question: GPL+Exception

2007-05-12 Thread Michael Poole
Wesley J. Landaker writes: On Saturday 12 May 2007 16:01:25 Francesco Poli wrote: You may not impose any further restrictions with respect to the *rights granted by the GPL*. But there are already such restrictions, and you cannot remove them because you are not the copyright holder. Hence