From kde-policies  Mon Nov 08 20:43:43 2004
From: Aaron Seigo <aseigo () kde ! org>
Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 20:43:43 +0000
To: kde-policies
Subject: Re: legal issues around cover art
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On November 8, 2004 10:15, Scott Wheeler wrote:
> I tend to prefer the Google one since it seems to be at least in the gray
> area to my mind, but I'm not sure if either is legal enough for inclusion
> in KDE. Thoughts?

IANAL, and i think a lawyer should look at this eventually, but ... i don't=
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believe this would be a GPL violation. the GPL does not permit anyone to ma=
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just any changes they wish to the source. in fact, section 7 of the GPL has=
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an out for this situation: if you can't satisfy the GPL and some other=20
relevant ruling then you have to renig on the GPL too. seeing as JuK would,=
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and amaroK does, abide by the Amazon Terms and Conditions, and those T&Cs a=
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transferable to other authors (e.g. it isn't an exclusive T&C between JuK's=
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authors and Amazon), i don't see the problem.

this doesn't restrict people from removing the Amazon-related code or even=
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from changing it. they would have to abide by Amazon's T&C, however. this i=
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pretty much like how trademark and patent law affects the GPL today, AFAIK

but again, IANAL =3D)

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Aaron J. Seigo
Society is Geometric

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