From kde-policies Mon Nov 08 21:11:57 2004 From: Cornelius Schumacher Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 21:11:57 +0000 To: kde-policies Subject: Re: legal issues around cover art Message-Id: <200411082211.57908.schumacher () kde ! org> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-policies&m=109994832932767 On Monday 08 November 2004 18:15, Scott Wheeler wrote: > > *) Amazon web services -- this one has a clearly defined terms of > use, but my reading of these terms [1] (sections C and D > specifically) is such that they cannot be used in a GPL'ed app. > Specifically the requirements for linkage to Amazon, linking to other > stores being banned, not allowing certain uses of the data, etc. seem > problematic. Specifically, if you took a GPL'ed application and > removed the line of code that caused it to link to Amazon it would no > longer be legal to redistribute said application. This would seem to > contradict the terms of the GPL. There are other licenses than the GPL. You could for example use a BSD-style license for JuK. Wouldn't this solve the problem? Or go the usual way via a LGPL plugin interface, or call an external application downloading the cover art from amazon. -- Cornelius Schumacher _______________________________________________ Kde-policies mailing list Kde-policies@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-policies