On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 16:45:32 +0100, Giuseppe Iuculano wrote:
> On 12/20/2010 05:38 PM, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > What is "GPL-compliant lyrics" supposed to mean? Either they're free,
> > and there's no need to replace them, GPL or not. Or they're not free,
> > and we need to not ship them, in which case a patch is not enough. I
> > just don't get what the GPL has to do with this.
>
> The "hello plugin" is an example plugin released under GPL. This plugin
> contains in its source code the full lyrics to a copyrighted (and work,
^^^
there's something missing here...> a song called "Hello Dolly". That patch replaced that lyrics. > I still don't know what you mean. Surely the lyrics is essentially data, so whether it's GPL-compatible is irrelevant? And if it's non-free, you're still shipping the old lyrics (twice now, since it's both in the upstream source and the debian patch) so that's not fixed. Cheers, Julien
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