Re: Combining Artistic|GPL-1+ with GPL-2 and LGPL-3+
Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org> wrote:
> [Please continue to Cc me on replies. Thanks]
[...]
> In the case I am after, both "works" are in the same upstream tarball,
> and in the same .deb.
>
> The files are separate, i.e. no compilation in the C source --> object
> code sense is taking place. The icons are loaded at runtime and used
> in the user interface.
>
> Does this sound like "a mere aggregation"?
Yes, in my opinion. If you can change the icons at runtime without
ill-effect (within reason - it's OK if the new icons must be the same
size, for example) and it's just that they're in the same tar volume,
that seems like mere aggregation to me.
See also http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-faq.html#MereAggregation
"Where's the line between two separate programs, and one program
with two parts? This is a legal question, which ultimately judges
will decide. We believe that a proper criterion depends both on the
mechanism of communication (exec, pipes, rpc, function calls within
a shared address space, etc.) and the semantics of the communication
(what kinds of information are interchanged)."
I suggest that the icons are used only as runtime data and no
information is interchanged with them.
Hope that explains,
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