Re: DFSG-ness of two

2015-05-30 Thread Riley Baird
> > > > > > > > - 3. You may not have any income from distributing this source > > > > > > > > -(or altered version of it) to other developers. When You > > > > > > > > -use this product in a comercial package, the source may > > > > > > > > -not be charged seperatly. > > > > > > The t

Re: DFSG-ness of two

2015-05-30 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, May 31, 2015 at 11:04:32AM +1000, Riley Baird a écrit : > > > > > > > - 3. You may not have any income from distributing this source > > > > > > > -(or altered version of it) to other developers. When You > > > > > > > -use this product in a comercial package, the source may > > > >

Re: DFSG-ness of two

2015-05-30 Thread Riley Baird
> > > > > > - 3. You may not have any income from distributing this source > > > > > > -(or altered version of it) to other developers. When You > > > > > > -use this product in a comercial package, the source may > > > > > > -not be charged seperatly. > > > > > > > > But a developer d

Re: GPL "+" question

2015-05-30 Thread Riley Baird
> > I'm not sure that you can grant the right of enforcing the license to > > someone else, > I suspect that for legal litigation you may need to represent the > copyright owner. That's what I meant; I probably didn't word it clearly, though. pgp4w78cg1zYD.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: DFSG-ness of two

2015-05-30 Thread Charles Plessy
> > Le Sat, May 30, 2015 at 11:26:59AM +1000, Riley Baird a écrit : > > > > > > > > > > - 3. You may not have any income from distributing this source > > > > > -(or altered version of it) to other developers. When You > > > > > -use this product in a comercial package, the source may > >

Re: GPL "+" question

2015-05-30 Thread Ángel González
On 31/05/15 00:10, Riley Baird wrote: On Sat, 30 May 2015 23:24:53 +0200 Ángel González wrote: IMHO you would be the one responsible for enforcing the license... Exactly. So, if a work is originally licensed under GPL-2+ and Person A makes a copy and gives it to Person B under GPL-3. Now consi

Re: GPL "+" question

2015-05-30 Thread Riley Baird
On Sat, 30 May 2015 23:24:53 +0200 Ángel González wrote: > On 30/05/15 03:30, Riley Baird wrote: > Only the copyright holder can change what a *work* is licensed as. > >> Unless the copyright holder grants the permission to do so, I would > >> say... > > Let's say I hold copyright on a work,

Re: GPL "+" question

2015-05-30 Thread Ángel González
On 30/05/15 03:30, Riley Baird wrote: Only the copyright holder can change what a *work* is licensed as. Unless the copyright holder grants the permission to do so, I would say... Let's say I hold copyright on a work, and I grant someone else permission to change the license of a work. Who woul

Re: GPL "+" question

2015-05-30 Thread Ole Streicher
Charles Plessy writes: > If it were me, I would give the benefit of the doubt to the upstream > author of missfits, and trust him that if he added a GPLv3+ header, it > is because he modified the files, as he says in the README. When I adopted the first package from this author (sextractor), I as