On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 19:58:59 -0500 Guilherme de Siqueira Pastore wrote: > On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 10:38:34PM +0200, Mark Weyer wrote: [...] > > but anybody else breaches the GPL 2 or 3 by not offering source code. > > ... but I tend to disagree at this point. Despite the possibility of > considering these file types as source code for the relevant purposes under > the circumstances, I am not sure we can talk about license violation from a > legal standpoint if the infringed requirement is that of redistribution of > something the redistributor never received (and, in this case, something > even the copyright holder could not provide, because it does not exist). This > should, at the very least, constitute grounds for exemption of liability. I am not convinced: if someone releases a work under the GPL without making the corresponding source available, nobody else really has the true permission to redistribute, as the license requires re-distributors to make source available, but they cannot, since they do not have it in the first place. Excluding cases where a re-distributor creates a modified version using what he/she has received: in those cases, the source for the modified version is truly the form that the modifier chose to make modifications to the original work. [...] > As for a possible DFSG violation, assuming from the considerations above that > the right to redistribute is not impaired, the last (and obviously not least) > remaining issue would be the requirement that "[t]he program must include > source code". In this context, I think such requirement is widely open to > interpretation, and I tend to think that considering wesnoth-music non-free > would be counter-productive and inconsistent with the principles outlined in > the Social Contract and with the remainder of the DFSG. > > That, however, is merely a personal opinion, of which I am actually not quite > convinced. I look forward to hearing other people's comments on the issue. There was a GR in 2004 to clarify the social contract, in order to make it clear that the DFSG apply to all works (in Debian main), not just executable programs. Hence I think the agreed upon interpretation is that music and images must include source code. -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/frx-gpg-key-transition-2010.txt New GnuPG key, see the transition document! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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