Re: Inclusion of PDF with CC Attr 3.0 license

[Walter Landry <wlandry@caltech.edu>]

Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
> My personal view is that there would be no problem shipping the PDF,
> even though Debian's users would have no practical ability to modify
> this PDF.  Making a modified version of a scientific paper like this
> one is neither useful, nor, unless especial care is taken, ethical.

As someone who reads and writes papers, this is not true.  Reusing
figures for talks and other papers is immensely useful.  Copying the
LaTeX for an equation can also be quite helpful.  This paper has both
of these elements.  It is not like it is hard to add the attribution
required by the license.

Cheers,
Walter Landry