On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 19:04:57 +0000 Måns Rullgård wrote: > Ken Arromdee <arromdee@rahul.net> writes: > > > On Sun, 11 Mar 2007, Ben Finney wrote: > >> Those licenses can apply to any software, not just programs. So, if > >> the software is an audio work or picture, a software license like > >> GPL or Expat can apply to it. > > > > Actually, there's one big problem. The GPL's "preferred form for > > modification" clause. [...] > The "preferred form for modification" for a film director is often a > reshoot of the scene. I guess this means that a GPL video would have > to ship with (a copy of) Tom Cruise if he happens to be one of the > actors in the film. Sounds difficult to fulfill. No, that is the preferred form for recreating the film from scratch! The preferred form for *modifying* the film is the video recording in some format that is, well, preferred for, well, making modifications (adding special effects, postproduction, editing, and so forth: think about the so-called "special editions" of old movies, scenes are not shot again with the original actors, but they may be modified in various ways). -- http://frx.netsons.org/progs/scripts/refresh-pubring.html Need to refresh your keyring in a piecewise fashion? ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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