On Sun, 25 Aug 2013 09:36:15 -0400 Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > My own opinions below (not any sort of ftp* anything) > > On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 12:15:11PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: > > > A database of place names. Read in as data when the program runs. > > > > If these attribute files are really just data read at run-time by the > > program, I think that the license incompatibility should not be a > > re-distribution legal issue. > > > > Correct. > > > > > Anyway, persuading the copyright holder(s) of these attribute files to > > re-license (or dual-license) them under the terms of the GNU GPL v2 > > would erase any doubt... > > This is absurd at best; there's no need to do this. I don't think it's absurd and please note that I did *not* say there is a *need* to do this. I just said that a re-licensing under GPL-compatible terms would eliminate any doubt. After all, if those files had already been GPL-compatible, there would have been no doubt and this whole thread would not have started in the first place... > Such works as > place-name databases are perfectly fine under CC-BY-SA 3.0 or better. > (inb4 you tell us how much you hate CC-BY and it's not free to you, and > the ftp-masters made a mistake) In fact, many works are *better* > licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0 than GPL-2 or 3, since the GPL's terms are > much better fit for code I respectfully disagree: I am convinced that the GNU GPL is far better than any CC license, for both programmatic and non-programmatic works. But that's not the point, anyway. What I was trying to say was just that having those files under GPL-compatible terms would erase any possible doubt (and also enable other potential uses that are currently forbidden). [...] > In addition, this is an absurd claim to start; the GIMP is GPL-3, can we > not edit CC-BY-SA images in the GIMP? The GIMP reads these files at > runtime, too! [...] Once again, that's not what I said. -- 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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