Re: GPLed software with no true source. Was: Bug#402650: ITP: mozilla-foxyproxy

2007-02-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Don Armstrong wrote: Unfortunatly, there's not much that can be done to protect us from this latter case. If upstream wants to lie about which is the prefered form for modification, our choice is either to stop distributing or pony up when they sue us for violating their license and prove

Re: GPLed software with no true source. Was: Bug#402650: ITP:mozilla-foxyproxy

2007-02-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Evan Prodromou wrote: On Tue, 2007-30-01 at 11:54 -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: This refrain keeps getting repeated, but still no one has explained how distributing a form of the work which is _not_ the prefered form for modification satisfies section 3 of the GPL: So, I think we all

Re: GPLed software with no true source. Was: Bug#402650: ITP: mozilla-foxyproxy

2007-02-02 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 02 Feb 2007, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: If upstream sued Debian for violating their license for this reason, wouldn't the onus of proof then be upon upstream to prove that they were lying about what was their preferred form of modification? Given that, I'm not sure a judge would be very

Re: GPLed software with no true source. Was: Bug#402650: ITP:mozilla-foxyproxy

2007-02-02 Thread Ben Finney
Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Evan Prodromou wrote: personally (IANAL) I'd consider whitespace stripping to be a non-issue. After a change that is trivial for any downstream recipient of the code to make (running the afore-mentioned indent), the whitespace-stripped code is

Re: GPLed software with no true source. Was: Bug#402650: ITP:mozilla-foxyproxy

2007-02-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Ben Finney wrote: Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: personally (IANAL) I'd consider whitespace stripping to be a non-issue. After a change that is trivial for any downstream recipient of the code to make (running the afore-mentioned indent), the whitespace-stripped code is