On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 5:51 AM, Francesco Poli <f...@firenze.linux.it> wrote:
>> Afterall, a model is just a big set of numbers. > > Machine code is just a long sequence of 0s and 1s... I knew someone would come up with this :-) Let me summarize and please correct me if I'm wrong. * The model alone can be distributed under a free license. - As a consequence of this, neither the original data nor the program to build the model need to be free. * The DFSG is more restrictive and requires the source of any software in Debian. - If you consider that the model is the source like it was accepted for a picture which is a 2D rendering of a 3D model, then you can package the model directly. - Otherwise, it is necessary that the data are included in the source package and the tools to build the model are in Debian main. -> To cope with models which take too long to compute, it should be possible to ship a pre-built architecture-independent model together with the data. However this doesn't solve the problem that the data may be too large to be hosted in the archive. -> If data size becomes a problem, then one could resort to use the non-free archive in order to ship the model only. Thank you, Mathieu Blondel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org