Re: CC vs GPL: how to ensure compatibility and compliance

Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> On 9/30/07, Terry Hancock <hancockanansispaceworks.com> wrote:
> Perhaps you should have spent a couple seconds making
sure you
> understood me before going off on a rant.

Rant?

Your overreaction to my post is a "rant". I simply
presented a
contrasting opinion. You said yourself that such practices
were
legally permissible. But then you claimed that it violated
the
spirit of the license.

I would say that many people do not agree that it violates
the
spirit of the license. It would be nicer for localization
data
to be released under a free license, but it is truthfully
not
"integral" to the software any more than a
"skin" is for XMMS. The
software will run without it.

Where it might go astray legally, however, is that it is
arguably a
derivative work (a translation) of a free work (the original
UI
text). You can probably nail them via that interpretation,
for your
specific case, if you think it's worth prosecuting.

Cheers,
Terry

-- 
Terry Hancock (hancockAnansiSpaceworks.com)
Anansi Spaceworks http://www.AnansiSpac
eworks.com

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