On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 10:02 PM, Michael Wild <them...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 07/31/2012 09:51 PM, Bart Martens wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 12:25:32PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: >>> Hi Michael, >>> >>> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 09:03:52PM +0200, Michael Wild wrote: >>> >>>> I'm maintaining a package that contains an EPS image created with Adobe >>>> Illustrator and hence contains postscript library code that is >>>> copyrighted by Adobe, e.g.: >>> >>>> * Copyright(C)2000-2006 Adobe Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved >>>> * Copyright(C)1997-2007 Adobe Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. >>>> * Copyright 1997-2006 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. >>>> * Copyright 1987-2006 Adobe Systems Incorporated. >>> >>>> and so on. >>> >>>> Does this make the file non-redistributable and non-DFSG free? If not, >>>> would I need to list all these copyright statements into debian/copyright? >>> >>>> Strange thing is, most of it is simply boilerplate that is not even >>>> used. Running it through eps2eps (a ghostscript wrapper) brings the file >>>> down from 220K to 4K! >>> >>> A copyright statement does not, by itself, say anything about the license of >>> the work. Since Illustrator is frequently used for producing output files >>> that are expected to be distributed, it would be reasonable to assume that >>> the output is liberally licensed and that whatever license is listed in the >>> package is in fact the correct one, with no other license attaching to this >>> output. >>> >>> If you find an authoritative license statement to the contrary, *then* we >>> should worry about whether this is non-redistributable. >> >> The user of Adobe Illustrator may have had the intention to create files that >> can be freely redistributed. If parts of the files are copyrighted by Adobe >> (Michael wrote "contains postscript library code that is copyrighted by >> Adobe") >> without license from Adobe, then the files cannot be freely redistributed. >> >> Regards, >> >> Bart Martens > > Well, the expectation is that if you purchase a license to use Adobe > Illustrator that then you are allowed to redistribute the produced files > under whatever conditions as you like. > > Apart from the problem of whether the stripped image would be free of > the restrictions imposed by the Adobe copyright, I just noticed that the > ghostscript output also contains a block that is licensed as follows: > > Copyright (C) 2010 Artifex Software, Inc. All rights reserved.
Please report to ghostscript bts please. With an example file where you own the copyright from the source file. Thanks Bastien > How would I ask the FTP-masters what they think about the Adobe > copyright statements? > > I'll probably just remove the file as it is just a logo used in the > docs. I'll ask upstream whether he would be OK with that. > > Michael > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/501839b8.7060...@gmail.com > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAE2SPAa=Za1p9tBUdbpG=iqlumbagfcvktn0da_cd_xcldi...@mail.gmail.com
