[gentoo-catalyst] Livecd License

[gentoo-catalyst] Livecd License

[Luca Casagrande]

Hi to all!

My livecd, will be used during a postgresql meeting to show some  
application.

Organizing team, has asked me for the media's license; i told him  
that each application has got a own license and the full work
can be release in gpl3.

Am I correct?

Thanks

Luca
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Re: [gentoo-catalyst] Livecd License

[Andrew Gaffney]

Luca Casagrande wrote:
> 
> Hi to all!
> 
> My livecd, will be used during a postgresql meeting to show some 
> application.
> 
> Organizing team, has asked me for the media's license; i told him that 
> each application has got a own license and the full work
> can be release in gpl3.
> 
> Am I correct?

I doubt it. We can't really give you that answer as we have no idea what 
packages you are using on the LiveCD. You need to do the legwork of figuring out 
which license each package uses and if said license can be "transferred" to GPLv3.

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Andrew Gaffney                                 http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/
Gentoo Linux Developer             Catalyst/Installer + x86 release coordinator
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Re: [gentoo-catalyst] Livecd License

[Chris Gianelloni]

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On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 07:36 -0500, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> Luca Casagrande wrote:
> > 
> > Hi to all!
> > 
> > My livecd, will be used during a postgresql meeting to show some 
> > application.
> > 
> > Organizing team, has asked me for the media's license; i told him that 
> > each application has got a own license and the full work
> > can be release in gpl3.
> > 
> > Am I correct?
> 
> I doubt it. We can't really give you that answer as we have no idea what 
> packages you are using on the LiveCD. You need to do the legwork of figuring out 
> which license each package uses and if said license can be "transferred" to GPLv3.

You can release the work as a compilation under a license of your
choosing, so long as all the components that make up your work are
licensed under a similar and compatible license.  As an example, if you
used a package that was under, for example, the ut2003 license, then you
could not license under any GPL-compatible license since you would be
unable to provide the source code for ut2003/4.

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Chris Gianelloni
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Gentoo Foundation

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