Re: [Inkscape-devel] "COMPUTERBILD"?

15 Apr 2005

      I was to forget some links to the news confirming the validity of GPL in
Germany.
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/07/23/1558219.shtml?tid=117&tid=123
The pdf of the trial conclusions (in German) can be found there :
http://linuxfr.org/redirect/36078.html
The focus of this affair was againt a vendor violating the GPL license (of
netfilter/iptables)
Best regards,
Matiphas
Selon matiphas@...8...:
...
Hi,
as far as I know, the GPL license is perfectly valid in Germany. It has been
confirmed last year by a court (some 'stolen' code, originally under GPL; the
binaries being redistributed without any copyright/notice/source code).
Furthermore, open source communities are very active out there.
I'd like to point out the fact that 'open source'magazine are really emerging
in
Europe. In France, there are 2 main editors pushishing 2 families of magazine
(Login, Linux magazine...). Plus a Polish editor distributing some translated
versions (English, German, French...) of the magazine (software 2.0 and Linux
+DVD)
I'm pretty sure they can become very good advocates of Inkscape, and accept
articles.
Regards,
Matiphas
Selon mental@...3...:
...
Quoting Bryce Harrington <bryce@...260...>:
...
I've thought maybe this could be stripped down to essentially
(but politely) say, "This software can be redistributed freely
under the terms of the GPL".  Anyway, take a look and let me know
what you think.
I wouldn't attempt modifying the boilerplate agreement without
enlisting a (German) lawyer to review it, at minimum[1].
What I would recommend is sending them a copy of the GPL, with
introductory text explaining that it is the only license we offer,
but that it appears to be more than sufficiently liberal for their
purposes (no royalties, and no time or regional limits).  Direct
them to the section "TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION
AND MODIFICATION"[2].
Note to them that while there _is_ a requirement to make Inkscape's
source code available, that requirement can be satisfied by simply
including a copy of the source code on the CD (per T&C sec. 3a),
which we can provide to them along with the installer/binaries[3].
It might not hurt to point out that the license is generic to
several different products, but is applied to Inkscape in
particular per section 0 of the terms and conditions.
-mental
[1] Even if you successfully adjusted the conditions on distribution
without unintended problems due to wording issues, you obviously
can't, for example, warrant that you (Bryce Harrington) are the
original author, nor is there an organization legally representing
all the copyright holders that you could sign on behalf of.
And that's just to my untrained eye.  There are potentially more
sutble gotchas due to differences in German versus US law (they
come from very different legal traditions, so some basic
assumptions you may take for granted are wrong).
[2] The preamble and the later suggestions for attribution may be
confusing for them, but obviously we have to present the whole
license document textually intact, per its own license.
[3] Yes, I know they could download it from our web site, but I
suspect they would be more comfortable if we gave them everything
they needed directly.  They are going to have some culture shock
issues here as they're coming from the proprietary world, so we may
as well accomodate them where we can.

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