On 2016-01-04 09:08-0000 Phil Rosenberg wrote: > To add to my last email, I just googled for compatibility between CC > and LGPL - most of the resources I found were actually regarding GPL, > not LGPL, but apparently they are incompatible - I think mostly > because CC requires attribution > http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/272335/how-and-when-had-the-cc-by-license-become-gnu-gpl-compatible > > Anyway, I think if we use a CC image, we must specify that the image > is not LGPL and is in fact CC.
example 20 is an LPGLed combined work (consisting of LGPL application and LGPL library), the image that example 20 reads is simply a data file, It seems to me that any licensed software could read data that is licensed in any way since software and some arbitrary datafile it reads are not a combined work. For example, the GVPL'd gv application displays PostScript files regardless of their license, free software browsers display web content regardless of that content's license, etc., etc. So my assumption is the discussion you referred to was considering the possibility of combining software licensed under the GPL or LGPL with _other software_ licensed under the CC license. But that is a very different situation than software reading a simple data file. Assuming that legal theory is correct, then the only question for the data file is do we have the right to distribute it in modified (PPM, gray-scale) form? And the CC license for the data file gives us that right assuming we note the licensing terms for that image file in our Copyright file. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
