Re: The copyright of a keyboard mapping and its implementation
On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le lundi 16 mars 2009 à 11:18 -0700, Don Armstrong a écrit :
> > Is there any hope of getting Leboutte to license this under CC without
> > the NC and ND clauses or retract his claims?
>
> I don’t think so, but maybe an open source evangelist would have
> better luck.
You'd probably know people who'd be more likely to get Leboutte's
attention (and speak french); try to enlist one of them.
> > Alternatively, can someone generate a clean-room implementation of the
> > appropriate layout?
>
> What do you mean by “clean-room”? Both X11 implementations were made
> from scratch, it’s just that Francis Leboutte claims they are a
> derived work of his layout.
I mean that the X11 implementations were made without direct reference
to potentially copyrighted portions of Francis Leboutte's
implementation. If that's the case, then we can distribute these
versions, ditch Leboutte's implementation, and sleep soundly while
ignoring threats about them.
> I think we’re not at risk of anyone being sued as long as we don’t
> distribute a derived version. However this particular requirement
> makes the layout non-free.
Right. I'm just concerned about one of the derivatives of Debian
naïvely distributing a derived version if it's distributed in main,
and so if we go that way, I'd want to force Leboutte's hand. [If it's
in non-free, it doesn't make any difference to me.]
Don Armstrong
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