Re: 3 questions around source of GPL images

2012-03-19 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le lundi 19 mars 2012 02:17:05, vous avez écrit : > > By the definition in the GPL (in GPLv3 §1, “the preferred form of the > work for making modifications to it”), every work of software has a > source form. So digital images are no exception. Totally agree. > > If the preferred form of a sof

Re: 3 questions around source of GPL images

2012-03-19 Thread Paul Wise
While I think other folks in this thread have covered your question, I would like to request that you ask upstream to choose a more appropriate source form. For eg one wouldn't take a copy of /bin/ls and modify it, one would take a copy of the source code for /bin/ls, modify it and produce a new /b

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2012-03-19 Thread Paul Wise
There are a small number of PayPal and flattr related images in Debian: wget -qO - http://http.debian.net/debian/dists/sid/main/Contents-amd64.gz | zgrep -Ei '(paypal|flattr).*\.(png|gif)' wget -qO - http://http.debian.net/debian/dists/sid/main/Contents-source.gz | zgrep -Ei '(paypal|flattr).*\.(p

Re: PayPal and other non-free images

2012-03-19 Thread Paul Wise
Bah, the subject of this mail should have been: PayPal and other non-free images On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 8:24 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > There are a small number of PayPal and flattr related images in Debian: > > wget -qO - http://http.debian.net/debian/dists/sid/main/Contents-amd64.gz > | zgrep -Ei

Re: 3 questions around source of GPL images

2012-03-19 Thread Ben Finney
"Thomas Preud'homme" writes: > Le lundi 19 mars 2012 02:17:05, vous avez écrit : > > If the preferred form of a software work is the same as the one used > > directly by programs for displaying the image, then that doesn't > > change the fact that it's the source form of the work. > > Agree again