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Re: [POSITION SUMMARY] Re: Plugins, libraries, licenses and Debian



On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 11:10:05AM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
> Now, there is a potential problem. Remember that scripting language 
> mentioned before? If someone were to write a script that used both 
> INVERT and STENOG, and then distribute that script, there might be a 
> problem. But that's an issue for another thread.

Actually, it's closer than you think. Any "product" [arbitrary
definition] that requires all three components is a derivative work of
all of them; that will almost certainly violate one or more of the
licenses.

Hmm, that's actually interesting. We have an emergent licensing
constraint that is a property of none of the works involved, but only
appears when they are put together. I don't think we can even discuss
the DFSG-freeness of such a constraint in any meaningful way.

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