On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 01:08:30PM +0000, Odysseus Flappington wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > The reason it's not in non-free (i.e. multiverse, in Ubuntu), is that > > distributing it is currently believed to be a contravention of the > > copyright interests of the owners of the elements licensed under the > > GPL. When we believe that something is a violation of civil law to > > I'm not really taking sides here since I don't have enough > information, but out of curiosity, what do you mean when you say > "contravention of the copyright interests of the owners of the > elements licensed under the GPL."?
Jason's second post (regarding the CDDL) accurately describes what I meant. It is not my intention to rehash the argument here, and I really don't want to get into an extended argument about copyright law, the GPL, and/or the CDDL; I also don't think it will be helpful to jump in on the negotiation in progress. Some of my colleagues have worked with the Software Freedom Law Center to offer a licence modification which we believe would address the incompatibility, but at the moment we can only play a waiting game. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
