<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 11:32 PM, Sven Geggus <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lists@fuchsschwanzdomain.de">lists@fuchsschwanzdomain.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">Cartinus <<a href="mailto:cartinus@xs4all.nl">cartinus@xs4all.nl</a>> wrote:<br>
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> That would already be achieved with GPL. You don't need AGPL for that.<br>
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</div>You might be right. Given that the analogy is as follows:<br>
(mapnik=compiler, stylefile=sourcecode, tile=binary)<br>
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Distributing tiles without stylefile would be like distributing<br>
binaries without sourcecode.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div>The source code of the map is the map data itself. Only rarely do the styles *add* information to the map itself. and that information added is even more rarely something that cannot be easily replaced or rewritten. The map data itself is a totally different story, it cannot be replaced easily.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The styles are more like inline functions that are expanded in the compilation stage. </div></div><div>Here is a discussion on the linux kernel that covers clever and expressive inline functions <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2338142">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2338142</a></div>
<div>and here <a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/03/20/1529238/rms-on-header-files-and-derivative-works">http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/03/20/1529238/rms-on-header-files-and-derivative-works</a> </div><div><br>
</div><div>"""<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium">That's not the FSF's view. Our view is that just using structure</span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium"> </span></div>
<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:medium">definitions, typedefs, enumeration constants, macros with simple </span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:medium">
<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:medium">bodies, etc., is NOT enough to make a derivative work. It would take </span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:medium">
<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:medium">a substantial amount of code (coming from inline functions or macros </span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman';background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:medium">
<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:medium">with substantial bodies) to do that. """ </span><a href="http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0301.1/0362.html">http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0301.1/0362.html</a><div>
<br></div><div><div>Of course the color and layout of the map might be considered a creative expression itself and i did not cover that in my previous posting. </div><div>see this post on the issue of copying style :</div>
</div><div><a href="http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2008/11/post_35.html">http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2008/11/post_35.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>and this on the copyright of css :</div><div>
<a href="http://b0x0rz.deviantart.com/journal/Is-CSS-Copyrightable-214148624">http://b0x0rz.deviantart.com/journal/Is-CSS-Copyrightable-214148624</a></div><div><b style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(245,248,244)">"""First, a short answer to a question (for the impatient ones): "Is CSS Copyrightable?"</b><br style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(245,248,244)">
<span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(245,248,244)">No. Absolutely NOT. (note: This is valid only for the CSS code itself not any images it may reference.)"""</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(245,248,244)"><br></span></div><div><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:18px">thanks</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:18px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:18px">mike</span></font></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
-- </blockquote></div>James Michael DuPont<br>Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova <a href="http://flossk.org" target="_blank">http://flossk.org</a><br>