[cc-community] Why the GPL-incompatibility?

Evan Prodromou evan at prodromou.name
Sat Feb 10 14:02:29 EST 2007


On Sat, 2007-10-02 at 16:01 +0000, Rob Myers wrote:

> > This would  help the legal distrib-
> > ution  by free distros of some apps (particularly games).
> 
> Free distros are distros of free *software*. The requirements of freedom 
> for cultural works and for computer programs may be different.

At least with Debian, we consider all the data in the distribution as
"software" (it certainly isn't "hardware"). So images, documentation,
video, audio all have to meet the DFSG, the same as computer programs.

There's not a clear line between computer programs and cultural works
anymore. Most GUI programs today include some images, sounds, and almost
all programs worth a damn include documentation text. Many programs
(especially games) include images, sounds, text, and interstitial video.

~Evan


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Evan Prodromou <evan at prodromou.name>
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