Re: Lost sources [was: Re: scientific paper in package only in postscript form non-free?]

2011-03-18 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 18 Mar 2011, Mark Weyer wrote: > Just to make sure there is no misunderstanding, let me rephrase my > scenario: Someone modifies a GPLed work, say a program written in C. > Between compiling and distributing, he deliberately deletes the C > files. Then he distributes the compiled binary. By

Re: Lost sources [was: Re: scientific paper in package only in postscript form non-free?]

2011-03-18 Thread Mark Weyer
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 01:25:57PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Wed, 16 Mar 2011, Mark Weyer wrote: > > I always thought that such distribution would be in breach of the > > GPL, or more generally of copyleft. After all, it is impossible to > > distinguish, from the outside, between lost and se

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2011-03-18 Thread RNW Yorkton
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Re: scientific paper in package only in postscript form non-free?

2011-03-18 Thread Hendrik Weimer
Noel David Torres Taño writes: >> Sure, it should be - what happens if it no longer exists? That seems >> quite possible for a years-old journal paper. > > It can happen that the scientific paper has non-free copyright: it > uses to be attributed to the journal where first published. Not the ca

Re: scientific paper in package only in postscript form non-free?

2011-03-18 Thread Noel David Torres Taño
> Sure, it should be - what happens if it no longer exists? That seems > quite possible for a years-old journal paper. It can happen that the scientific paper has non-free copyright: it uses to be attributed to the journal where first published. Or simply that the author of the paper does not w