Re: Using a CC-3.0-BY file as data file for a GPL program

2007-09-03 Thread Arnoud Engelfriet
Olive wrote: Arnoud Engelfriet wrote: If the selection of the data that was put in the database involved creative activity by its maker, then yes you need a copyright license. If the database was created by a European company, then you need a license under its database right. (No database

Re: DFSG conform OSI licenses

2007-09-03 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 02 septembre 2007 à 13:46 +0200, Marco d'Itri a écrit : No, GFDL'ed stuff got approved before a few people managed to change the DFSG by disguising that as editorial changes. Only you and Anthony Towns believe the changes were not editorial. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette

Re: Using a CC-3.0-BY file as data file for a GPL program

2007-09-03 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 02 septembre 2007 à 19:03 +0530, Shriramana Sharma a écrit : It's a program related to astronomy that requires latitude, longitude and elevation of places to calculate sunrise, sunset etc. For that I found the database from geonames.org. This database has a certain internal

Re: Using a CC-3.0-BY file as data file for a GPL program

2007-09-03 Thread Marco d'Itri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the program cannot work without the database, that makes it a derived work. Not true: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0-faq.html#MereAggregation -- ciao, Marco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: Using a CC-3.0-BY file as data file for a GPL program

2007-09-03 Thread Ben Finney
Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Le dimanche 02 septembre 2007 à 19:03 +0530, Shriramana Sharma a écrit : It's a program related to astronomy that requires latitude, longitude and elevation of places to calculate sunrise, sunset etc. For that I found the database from

Re: Using a CC-3.0-BY file as data file for a GPL program

2007-09-03 Thread Florian Weimer
* Marco d'Itri: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the program cannot work without the database, that makes it a derived work. Not true: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0-faq.html#MereAggregation Huh? A comparable FSF position in this area is the claim that programs written in

Re: DFSG conform OSI licenses

2007-09-03 Thread Soeren Sonnenburg
On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 21:56 +0100, MJ Ray wrote: Soeren Sonnenburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2007-09-01 at 12:05 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: The only official statements about DFSG compliance are made by the ftpmasters. Well this is not too helpful. I would wish that licenses

Re: Using a CC-3.0-BY file as data file for a GPL program

2007-09-03 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 03:07:04PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le dimanche 02 septembre 2007 à 19:03 +0530, Shriramana Sharma a écrit : It's a program related to astronomy that requires latitude, longitude and elevation of places to calculate sunrise, sunset etc. For that I found the

Re: DFSG conform OSI licenses

2007-09-03 Thread Francesco Poli
On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 20:56:23 +0200 Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: [...] Anyway I below quote both the OSI open source definition and DFSG and as no one pointed me to any analysis on what could cause incompatibilities I am now just commenting on the parts below. In summary I think that the OSI's

Last call draft of AGPL v3

2007-09-03 Thread Francesco Poli
Hi all, the last call draft of the GNU Affero General Public License (GNU AGPL) version 3 has been published by the FSF, back on 14 August. The full text of this last call draft can be read at http://gplv3.fsf.org/comment/agplv3-draft-2.html The text of this license draft is basically identical