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Subject: Re: Everaldo keeping kde in lock -- was: K-ARTIST: Icons,
From: Dominique Devriese <dominique.devriese () student ! kuleuven ! ac ! be>
Date: 2004-01-15 22:52:37
Message-ID: 87vfncbz9m.fsf () student ! kuleuven ! ac ! be
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Andreas Pour writes:
> Dominique Devriese wrote: [ ... ]
>> What constitutes the source of a licensed work is not
>> subject to interpretation, the GPL and LGPL clearly define it as
>> follows:
>>
>> The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for
>> making modifications to it.
> Section 3 doesn't really apply since a PNG icon is not in "object
> code or executable form"
Ok, you may be right about this.
However, this still seems like a very risky interpretation for us
non-lawyers to be making. When a judge is given the task of
interpreting what the licensor meant with the license, I can imagine
him deciding that he probably would have meant the SVG as the
"sources".
All in all, I hope you agree that this is pretty unstable legal
ground, and every effort should be made to make the icon's "sources"
available. IMHO, this is still a showstopper bug.
cheers
domi
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