On 11/6/07, travel kid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I didn't know where to start so figured would start
from here. I was wondering what the US laws where in
shipping pre-installed debian servers to offices of
the same company outside US, to Europe mainly.
An explanation of why Debian doesn't
Thanks to all those that replied. Apparently as has been pointed out the
FSF is trying to catch the derivatives under the term of modification.
Seriously, does the FSF expect everyone who would modify a GPL-ed work
or create a derivative work to read and understand his countries
copyright
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 10:01:18PM +0530, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
Seriously, does the FSF expect everyone who would modify a GPL-ed work or
create a derivative work to read and understand his countries copyright
laws?
Ignorance of law is usually no defense in a court of law.
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I talked to someone on IRC and looks like the only license issue concerns
mkisofs. This links to both GPL and CDDL code and this is illegal.
This is of course a lie:
None of the programs in cdrtools has license problems.
cdrecord and other programs are 100% CDDL.
mkisofs is GPL but
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 08:38:39PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
mkisofs is GPL but uses CDDL library code. This is intentionally
allowed by the GPL as the GPL is a highly asymmetric license. The
GPL forbids GPL code to appear inside non-GPL project, but it allows
non-GPL code to appear in GPL
John Halton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 08:38:39PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
mkisofs is GPL but uses CDDL library code. This is intentionally
allowed by the GPL as the GPL is a highly asymmetric license. The
GPL forbids GPL code to appear inside non-GPL project,
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 08:38:39PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
I talked to someone on IRC and looks like the only license issue concerns
mkisofs. This links to both GPL and CDDL code and this is illegal.
This is of course a lie:
None of the programs in cdrtools has license problems.
The CDDL-licensed code is not included in the GPL program; the CDDL only
applies to the build scripts.
Not anymore. Now almost all of the program is CDDL, except 2 libraries, one
GPL, and one LGPL. mkisofs links to the GPL library, and that is the remaining
problem.
Yuhong Bao
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joerg Schilling) writes:
The GPL explicitely allows to use code under other licenses from GPL
code.
Please point out exactly where the GPLv2 explicitly permits this.
On the contrary, in section 2b, the GPLv2 explicitly requires
redistribution under the terms of the GPLv2.
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 09:20:14AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
Shriramana Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Seriously, does the FSF expect everyone who would modify a GPL-ed
work or create a derivative work to read and understand his
countries copyright laws?
The FSF doesn't expect it. The
John Halton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The FSF isn't mysteriously imposing on people the obligation to
comply with their own local copyright laws. That obligation exists
already.
This leads logically to discussions about legal systems that expect
everyone to act within the law, yet are both
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 05:45:17PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
Welcome, John (I've not seen you post here before this week). It's
great to see a qualified legal expert here among all we amateurs.
Questions of interest to me and perhaps others on this list, that you
can nevertheless choose not
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