On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 10:34 -0400, Arc Riley wrote: > On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 9:38 AM, Jamie Jones > <hentai_yagi@yahoo.com.au> wrote: > > Multiple tar.gz files could probably fix that - or requiring > users to > checkout from the revision control system. > > GPLv3 section 5c (note bold text): I don't normally read html email (you got flaged as spam), but I read the paragraph you quoted. > > c) You must license the entire work, as a whole, under this > License to anyone who comes into possession of a copy. This > License will therefore apply, along with any applicable section 7 > additional terms, to the whole of the work, and all its parts, > regardless of how they are packaged. This License gives no > permission to license the work in any other way, but it does not > invalidate such permission if you have separately received it. > > Clearly you cannot escape the terms of the GPL by splitting the work > into different packages, otherwise everyone would do this. How do you define an entire work ? Code and content to me are two separate works. As the copyright holder, it would be my prerogative to license either how I see fit, and I see nothing in that license that states I must license my other works under it, just because I choose to distribute them together. > > > > I know I'd laugh at anyone that said that to me about my data > > The GPL does not distinguish between "code" and "content", both of > which are "data" aka "software". With the attitude you've presented, > and given that your work is almost certainly building on the GPL > licensed work owned by others, I can see legal trouble in your future. My subversion repositories are freely available on the Internet. You'll find they do comply with the license of any code I use, that is in the repository (which is in bulk written by myself). Whilst you may not think so, I do champion the GPL - your interpretation of it however, certainly gives one consideration that it is an unwise choice if people such as yourself will claim other non-GPL works distributed with GPL works must be covered by the GPL. Regards, Yagisan -- Jamie Jones Email: jamie_jones_au@yahoo.com.au GPG/PGP signed mail preferred. PGP Key ID 0x4B6E7209 Fingerprint E1FD 9D7E 6BB4 1BD4 AEB9 3091 0027 CEFA 4B6E 7209
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