|
From: | Lasse Reichstein Nielsen |
Subject: | Re: LGPL question |
Date: | Thu, 17 Nov 2005 09:27:12 +0100 |
User-agent: | Opera M2/8.50 (Win32, build 7700) |
If my company, let's call it "Bony Corporation", decides to release a music CD "Get Right with the DRM" with a rootkit that contains copyrighted music and LGPL-licensed software, is it required to distribute the *music* source code under the LGPL or GPL? What *is* the source code to music? A non-DRM'd, non-encrypted copy of the music?
From the LGPL:"0. This License Agreement applies to any software library or other program ..." Music is not software. I don't know if US copyright law makes a distinction, but in my jurisdiction, software is considered a literary work, and music is
not. As for source code: "Source code" for a work means the preferred form of the work for makingmodifications to it. For a library, complete source code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to control compilation and installation of the
library. That doesn't really match music at all. So, nice try, but it won't fly. /L -- Lasse R. Nielsen - atwork@infimum.dk 'Faith without judgement merely degrades the spirit divine'
[Prev in Thread] | Current Thread | [Next in Thread] |