On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 11:28:35AM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 12:53:34AM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > >> What freedom are you trying to protect by claiming that JPEGs are not > >> adequately modifiable? Do you wish to apply this argument to all JPEGs? > > > > The freedom to modify the images to suit my purposes, of course. See > > http://www.fsf.org/licensing/essays/free-sw.html > > Right. If I create an image and only save it as a JPEG (say I've taken a > picture with a digital camera and then overlayed some text on top of > it), is that sufficient to satisfy DFSG 1? DFSG #1 is about redistribution. I'm going to take a guess that you meant DFSG #2, and answer in that context. No, not really. I can't reasonably alter the text to fix your spelling mistake, for example. We should not be forced to put up with a spelling error just because you couldn't be bothered to provide source. It's not like there's any barrier to you providing source here, you just haven't done it. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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