On 5/31/05, Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Nathanael Nerode wrote:
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> > Michael K. Edwards wrote:
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> >> [snipped lots of stuff where we agree]
> >
> > I agreed with everything you said. So I won't make this message long --
> > it started out as a whole lot of your paragraphs w
On 5/31/05, Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[more stuff where we agree]
> > Basically harmless, if TTD is abandonware;
> Consider that it has an official "successor" by the same author. Oh, but
> copyright a different company. Do you think maybe he plagarized himself?
> (Just to throw
Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> Michael K. Edwards wrote:
>
>> [snipped lots of stuff where we agree]
>
> I agreed with everything you said. So I won't make this message long --
> it started out as a whole lot of your paragraphs with "I agree with you"
> after each one. :-)
Oh, right. I did want t
Michael K. Edwards wrote:
> [snipped lots of stuff where we agree]
I agreed with everything you said. So I won't make this message long -- it
started out as a whole lot of your paragraphs with "I agree with you" after
each one. :-)
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On 5/31/05, Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I care less about OpenTTD in particular (I wouldn't touch it because of the
> dependence anyway, even though I have TTD) than about the application of
> the principles to other games. That's why I gav
Raul Miller wrote:
> While looking up laws this morning, to answer a question someone asked
> about the GFDL, I noticed something: 17 USC 1201 grants the copyright
> holder the right to authorize that technological measures be bypassed.
>
> The current GFDL trys to prevent any distribution of GF
Cesar Martinez Izquierdo wrote:
> El Viernes 22 Abril 2005 14:37, Maciej Dems escribió:
>> I have a simple question concerning the GFDL discussion.
>>
>> Does the GFDL documentation which currently does not contain any
>> invariant section have to go to non-free as well?
Yes, until the GFDL is revi
Andres Salomon wrote:
> As I remember, upstream (jgarzik/davem) was not overly interested in such
> a patch to tg3. Is this still the case, or are they amenable to such
> changes?
Upstream was not interested in legal niceties like including copyright
statements, either. I suppose both are still t
Dave Hornford wrote:
> A work authored by the American Government, and therefore in the public
> domain in the United States is in effect in the public domain in Italy,
> or equivalent of copyright expired. The work does not qualify for an
> Italian copyright, it was not created in Italy or by a
Sorry to revive this, but it seemed unsettled.
Josh Triplett wrote:
> *sigh*. First of all, this was an analogy, from restrictions placed on
> commercial distributors to other restrictions placed on other fields of
> endeavor. The intent was not to state that the proposed logo license
> restrict
Performing thread necromancy
Josh Triplett wrote:
> There is a strong case for Fair Use of the imagery based on the latter
> two factors. The actual use of the imagery in the game is also
> more-or-less a parody, which is a protected right.
>
> Nevertheless, as you said in your previous mes
Restricting this to -legal.
Michael K. Edwards wrote:
> The right to create sequels is reserved to the copyright holder,
> absent the sort of potent First Amendment defense which prevailed in
> SunTrust Bank v. Houghton Mifflin ("The Wind Done Gone"). Similar
> reasoning holds in many non-US juri
Michael K. Edwards wrote:
> The "Game Genie" case (Galoob) was a generic "cheat code" widget that
> substituted the odd byte in order to add lives and power-ups and all
> that, and was in no sense a substitutable good for the console, the
> game cartridge, or a sequel to any particular game. The "
Warning: way too long and full of digressions. Skip if you aren't really
interested.
Michael K. Edwards wrote:
>What is so "free speech" about ripping off a video game publisher?
Well, obviously the question is whether it's "ripping off", or a work
inspired by another one. YMMV. The facts see
Stephen R Laniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> And I'm wondering if anyone knows whether the Linux
> community could incorporate DTrace into our source code.
> Does the CDDL give us the right to do that? And under what
> conditions?
My summary of CDDL last time I saw it was
http://lists.debian.org/
On 5/31/05, Michael K. Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> After a quick glance, I would say that the CDDL is almost precisely
> the same license as the GPL -- once you strip away the FSF's untruths
> surrounding the GPL and construe it under California law ...
Perhaps I should add that my opinio
On 5/31/05, Stephen R Laniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> And I'm wondering if anyone knows whether the Linux
> community could incorporate DTrace into our source code.
> Does the CDDL give us the right to do that? And under what
> conditions?
After a quick glance, I would say that the CDDL is alm
Forgive me if this is the wrong forum on which to post this
question, but: I'm trying to piece together exactly how
permissive the CDDL is, using something very specific --
OpenSolaris's DTrace -- as an example. OpenSolaris.org says,
"The source code for one of the Solaris operating system's
most a
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On Sun, 29 May 2005 05:48:55 -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
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> Great! This license is totally distributable. I'm not sure, unfortunately,
> what counts as "equivalent" to hexadecimal. I think that's the only problem.
>
> If it was just "permission to distribute, unmodified, in any form"
On 5/29/05, Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> US law discussion follows, though it ought to apply anywhere which recognizes
> a strong right to free speech.
What is so "free speech" about ripping off a video game publisher?
Have you not looked closely enough to see that it's a rip-off
On 5/30/05, Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The one case to make a significant point involving mise-en-scene
> had a massive amount of new game data which was meant to
> be integrated with the existing game data, thus creating a "sequel".
>
> There was more going on than that, of course,
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