El jue, 27-03-2008 a las 21:42 -0700, Matthieu Riou escribió: (...snip...) > From what I understand of copyright law, it's not (of course IANAL, > etc...). > Distribution (or publication in copyright lingo) is defined as: > > "Publication" is the distribution of copies or phonorecords of a > work > to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by > rental, > lease, > or lending. The offering to distribute copies or phonorecords to a > group > > of persons for purposes of further distribution, public > performance, or > public display, constitutes publication. A public performance or > display > > of a work does not of itself constitute publication. >
The way it is written I take performance/display in the sense of "executing" the score (for music), playing the play (for theater), showing the movie, reading the poetry, exhibiting (displaying, for paintings)... > A source repository is in the category of "public performance or > display", > there's no purpose of further distribution. It doesn't constitute > publication. > I'd say that "performance" of software is executing it (like in music or theater, software is a "dynamic art"). Now I'm not sure if the "public" word stretches the meaning too much. But I'm pretty much sure that giving public access to a SCM repository amounts to distribution. Just notice how trac, git, mercurial and other UIs for SCM offer the download of a tarball for arbitrary revisions, for instance. Re: the purpose of further distribution, gentoo, just to give an example, offers sometimes -svn/-git/-cvs versioned packages, and those are built by accessing the SCM repository, checking out a HEAD copy, building the binaries and installing. I've seen this kind of packages (repackaged) in debian and rpm distributions too. and I've seen plenty of XXX-patched-cvs-200XXXXX.tgz/jar files in our own distributions. Regards Santiago > Cheers, > Matthieu -- Santiago Gala http://memojo.com/~sgala/blog/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
