Felix Stalder on Tue, 4 Nov 2003 22:02:09 +0100 (CET) |
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<nettime> Are all codes code? |
[This is unlikely to be a legal case, though from a semiotic point of view, it's nevertheless puzzling. Is using images that are released under the GPL the same than using source code released the GPL? Is including existing images into new images, in this case, a screenshot of a kde desktop in a tv series, the same as including existing source code into a new source code? Felix] Posted by Jonathan Riddell on Friday 31/Oct/2003, @17:09 from the 24h-to-3.2beta dept. http://dot.kde.org/1067616574/ The third series of television show 24 started in the US last week. In the aim to improve security, The Counter Terrorist Unit seem to have switched operating system from MacOS to KDE [1]. Interestingly they used a 3-year-old KDE 1.x desktop. These older icons are made available under a public domain licence. If a GPL'd set of icons had been used, would we now be legally able to modify, sell and distribute the episode under the terms of the GPL over the internet? [1] http://jriddell.org/24-kde.html ----+-------+---------+--- http://felix.openflows.org # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net