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Re: [GNU-linux-libre] is this work-group still serving the community?


From: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
Subject: Re: [GNU-linux-libre] is this work-group still serving the community?
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2021 21:07:18 +0200

On Tue, 05 Oct 2021 18:29:07 +0200
Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> wrote:

> If the terms of 7.80 were non-free then nmap should have been 
> removed rather than freezing it at 7.80.
I've looked a bit at the 7.80 license, and while I'm not a lawyer and
that I miss a lot of context here, and I didn't read all of it, from
what I read, that license could potentially be free.

For more legal background on the topic of derivative work (which the
license mention), there was a presentation at the FOSDEM 2013 named
"What is a Derivative Work under European Copyright Law?" that explains
a bit of the context but as the name implies, it was only valid for the
European union and things could also have changed since then.

That talk was recorded and published by Free as in Freedom[1].

I also didn't look what were the legal limits in various jurisdictions
about what could be considered derivative work or if the GPLv2
mentioned limitations about that.

References:
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[1]http://faif.us/cast/2013/mar/26/0x39/

Denis.

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