On May 10, 2008, Markus Laire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 09 May 2008 16:32:19 -0300 > Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> First of all, there's a question on >> whether the changes at hand are copyrightable in the first place. Erhm... Sorry, I made a mistake here. I meant 'require permission from copyright holder', not 'are copyrightable'. I apologize for wasting your time disputing a point I didn't intend to make. > I don't think that question is relevant here. If you modify files, you > need to acknowledge that fact so that everyone knows that they are > getting modified version, even if the changes are non-copyrightable. Agreed. Now, whether such changes require permission from the copyright holder is what makes the difference in terms of legal vs moral obligation. And then, there's the issue on whether fair use that doesn't comply with the terms of GPLv2 can trigger the termination clause. > It's not, at least not for all files (I didn't check them all). Thanks for checking. Best, -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Free Software Evangelist [EMAIL PROTECTED], gnu.org} FSFLA Board Member ¡Sé Libre! => http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED], gcc.gnu.org} _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
