Re: Preparation of Debian GNU/Linux 3.0r2 (II)

2003-12-01 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 02 Dec 2003, Alexander Cherepanov wrote: > The sad thing is that Adobe v. SSI was judged > (http://web.archive.org/web/20010303011442/http://www.bna.com/e-law/cases/adobe.html) > other way. How is it possible is beyond my understanding. For > comments see http://jeff.cs.mcgill.ca/~luc/kinch

Re: Preparation of Debian GNU/Linux 3.0r2 (II)

2003-12-01 Thread Alexander Cherepanov
25-Nov-03 15:04 Don Armstrong wrote: > Can someone who holds that non-trivial bitmap fonts [eg. fonts larger > than ~4x5 pixels] cannot be copyrighted please walk through the > rational for their position? [Ideally including case law citations.] 1. Typeface is not copyrightable because its artisti

Re: Preparation of Debian GNU/Linux 3.0r2 (II)

2003-12-01 Thread Alexander Cherepanov
27-Nov-03 05:24 Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > On Nov 24, 2003, at 11:15, GOTO Masanori wrote: >> So it's hard to make Japanese characters which have beautiful shape >> and unified baseline because each form is complex, and there are a lot >> of such complicated characters. > Well, at the risk of sta

Source only opensource licence.

2003-12-01 Thread Franck
Hi, We are currently working on a web-developpement tool for a private company. The people who fund the project are okay to give opensource a try, but they insist on some restrictions. (for the business model to be sucessful). The licence would not be so bad. The only restriction is

Re: Binaries under GPL(2)

2003-12-01 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Mon, 01 Dec 2003, Henning Makholm wrote: > > That's pretty prominent, I think. Especially as strings(1) is the > > canonical way of looking for notices in an object file. > Sure, but that's a case where you have acess to the assembly and can > modif

Re: Binaries under GPL(2)

2003-12-01 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 01 Dec 2003, Alexander Cherepanov wrote: > Erm... you mean, without this exception compiler itself must be > placed under GPL? If the compiler is a separate work and doesn't link itself into the work, most likely not. However, if, for example, you were distributing a compiled perl program