On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 11:59:54AM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Anton Zinoviev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Debian acknowledges as free some licenses that require that the > > source of all derived works is distributed in the form > > original_source+patch. If you have two works covered by such > > license then there is no permissible way to distribute the source > > of the combined work (unless the combined work is merely > > aggregation of independent derivatives of both works). > > Distribute a build system that applies a patch against work A which > turns it into a patch against work B. Applying this results in work C. > Pain? Yes. Possible? Yes.
You are not allowed to distribute a patch against work A which turs it into a patch against work B. You are not allowed to do this because this patch would be based both on works A and B. This makes it to be "work based on B" so you have to distribute it in the form original_B+patch. We have here a circular deadlock. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]