Re: Against DRM 2.0

2006-05-28 Thread Evan Prodromou
members and other Debian participants in the Against DRM 2.0 license, lashing out is the worst way to do that. You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. Good luck, ~Evan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Against DRM 2.0

2006-05-28 Thread Max Brown
2006/5/28, Evan Prodromou [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Good luck, Good luck, Evan, goood luck! Max

Re: Against DRM 2.0

2006-05-26 Thread Andrew Donnellan
On 5/26/06, Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some people think that only machine opcodes are software, and that data in other formats are not. The argument, here, is that if it's not an opcode for the currently running machine, it's not a machine instruction, and if it's not a machine

Re: Against DRM 2.0

2006-05-25 Thread Andrew Donnellan
On 5/24/06, MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Max Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] I said that many latin *juridical* terms are universal: the problem is that you don't know the language of the *right* No, the problem is that you seem to be using a foreign language to cloud matters which are really very

Re: Against DRM 2.0

2006-05-25 Thread Raul Miller
On 5/24/06, Andrew Donnellan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/24/06, Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Debian only distributes software. If software is defined as executable code, then no. If software is defined as executable code + related data used by it + documentation + everything else,

Re: Against DRM 2.0

2006-05-24 Thread MJ Ray
Max Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2006/5/23, MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sorry if that's butchery of a foreign language, but this list is usually in English. Ah ah! This is in english too (there are many universal juridical latin ter= ms!): Latin is not English. Is it universal? I don't

Re: Against DRM 2.0

2006-05-24 Thread Raul Miller
On 5/19/06, Andrew Donnellan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Max, did you know that Debian requires *everything*, not just software, to be DFSG-free? Not that it's particularly relevant since there isn't a huge amount under the Against DRM license, but... I have not been able to figure out what Max

Re: Against DRM 2.0

2006-05-24 Thread Max Brown
2006/5/24, MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Max Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2006/5/23, MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sorry if that's butchery of a foreign language, but this list is usually in English. Ah ah! This is in english too (there are many universal juridical latin ter= ms!): Latin is not

Re: Against DRM 2.0

2006-05-24 Thread MJ Ray
Max Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] I said that many latin *juridical* terms are universal: the problem is that you don't know the language of the *right* No, the problem is that you seem to be using a foreign language to cloud matters which are really very simple. [...] You are closed in your little

Re: Against DRM 2.0

2006-05-23 Thread David Mattli
On 5/21/06, Max Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Max p.s. Software is not music. Software is not visual art. Software is a code, a literary work (and Berna Convention consider software as a literary work). So software patents are unlogicall. There are two prevaling views of software which

Re: Against DRM 2.0

2006-05-23 Thread Max Brown
2006/5/23, David Mattli wrote: There are two prevaling views of software which I have seen. The view that software is the opposite of hardware, anything which is in binary format and the view that software is executable code. The former view is the most inclusive and the one (in my

Re: Against DRM 2.0

2006-05-23 Thread MJ Ray
Max Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] But the question is very easy: any lawyer knows there is a big difference between corpus mysthicum (the artwork/the code) and corpus mechanicum (the carrier/the file). The copyrightable work is only the artwork/the code! So, in your language, we require the same

Re: Against DRM 2.0

2006-05-23 Thread Max Brown
2006/5/23, MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sorry if that's butchery of a foreign language, but this list is usually in English. Ah ah! This is in english too (there are many universal juridical latin terms!): In copyright law this led to the distinction between the corpus mysticum (the work) and

Re: Against DRM 2.0

2006-05-22 Thread Don Armstrong
First and foremost, please stop top posting. We Are here to hold discussions about licencing, and it's very difficult to do so when your comments are wholy separated from the context in which they belong. You also should stop using HTML; a gmail account or similar should enable you to do this if

Re: Against DRM 2.0

2006-05-22 Thread MJ Ray
MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think that DRM-inhibiting licences are possible, but the s/are/that follow the DFSG are/ #oops! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Against DRM 2.0

2006-05-21 Thread Max Brown
t... Max, did you know that Debian requires *everything*, not just software, to be DFSG-free? Not that it's particularly relevant since there isn't a huge amount under the Against DRM license, but... On 5/20/06, Max Brown wrote: Very fine dissertation but... Evan, do you know that "Against

Re: Against DRM 2.0

2006-05-21 Thread Andrew Donnellan
the Against DRM license, but... On 5/20/06, Max Brown wrote: Very fine dissertation but... Evan, do you know that Against DRM 2.0 does not treat software?? :-) ROFTL And why you don't speak about related rights? unnecessary license... :-) Max Evan Prodromou

Re: Against DRM 2.0

2006-05-21 Thread Max Brown
Ok, you don't know related rights. http://www.wipo.int/about-ip/en/about_collective_mngt.html#P31_2900 Related rights are the rights that belong to the performers, the producers of phonograms and broadcasting organizations in relation to their performances, phonograms and broadcasts

Re: Against DRM 2.0

2006-05-21 Thread Max Brown
Ok, you have not arguments (and you don't know related rights). End of discussion for me. MaxAndrew Donnellan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Stop posting HTML.2. You != Debian. Debian standards of freedom are defined by theDebian Free *Software* Guidelines and that is basically set in stone.On

Re: Against DRM 2.0

2006-05-20 Thread Max Brown
, but...Max, did you know that Debian requires *everything*, not justsoftware, to be DFSG-free? Not that it's particularly relevant sincethere isn't a huge amount under the Against DRM license, but...On 5/20/06, Max Brown wrote: Very fine dissertation but... Evan, do you know that "Against DR

Re: Against DRM 2.0

2006-05-20 Thread Andrew Donnellan
, but... Max, did you know that Debian requires *everything*, not just software, to be DFSG-free? Not that it's particularly relevant since there isn't a huge amount under the Against DRM license, but... On 5/20/06, Max Brown wrote: Very fine dissertation but... Evan, do you know that Against DRM

Freeness of anti-DRM (was: Re: Against DRM 2.0)

2006-05-20 Thread Henri Sivonen
On May 19, 2006, at 16:14, Evan Prodromou wrote: Of course you know that the anti-DRM clause makes the license incompatible with the DFSG, right? Do they necessarily or just the ones so far proposed? I wrote an essay about it earlier this week, and I think there can be free anti-DRM

Re: Against DRM 2.0

2006-05-20 Thread Max Brown
nst DRM license, but... On 5/20/06, Max Brown wrote: Very fine dissertation but... Evan, do you know that "Against DRM 2.0" does not treat software?? :-) ROFTL And why you don't speak about related rights? unnecessary license... :-) MaxEvan Prodromou wrote: There are

Re: Freeness of anti-DRM (was: Re: Against DRM 2.0)

2006-05-20 Thread Max Brown
Good work Henri! ;-) I think that an anti-DRM clause (concerning granted rights) can defend the freedom. See "Free Content Definition" (Mako Hill and other people are working on it): http://freedomdefined.org/Definition Max Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. PC-to-Phone calls for ridiculously low

Re: Against DRM 2.0

2006-05-20 Thread Andrew Donnellan
, Max Brown wrote: Very fine dissertation but... Evan, do you know that Against DRM 2.0 does not treat software?? :-) ROFTL And why you don't speak about related rights? unnecessary license... :-) Max Evan Prodromou wrote: There are many platforms that _require_ DRM

Against DRM 2.0

2006-05-19 Thread Max Brown
cess control system. But also the clause about related rights is very important: for example, If a phonogram-maker produces a CD with songs released under Against DRM 2.0, you can grab and share the CD! This is not allowed by any other license. I think that "Against DRM 2.0" is better than Cre

Re: Against DRM 2.0

2006-05-19 Thread Evan Prodromou
inhibit more freedoms than they protect. I think that Against DRM 2.0 is better than Creative Commons licenses. That's an interesting opinion. Of course you know that the anti-DRM clause makes the license incompatible with the DFSG, right? There are many platforms that _require_ DRM -- notably

Re: Against DRM 2.0

2006-05-19 Thread Max Brown
Very fine dissertation but... Evan, do you know that "Against DRM 2.0" does not treat software?? :-) ROFTL And why you don't speak about related rights? unnecessary license... :-) MaxEvan Prodromou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:There are many platforms that _require_ DRM -- no

Re: Against DRM 2.0

2006-05-19 Thread Andrew Donnellan
but... Evan, do you know that Against DRM 2.0 does not treat software?? :-) ROFTL And why you don't speak about related rights? unnecessary license... :-) Max Evan Prodromou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are many platforms that _require_ DRM -- notably Sony game consoles and some palmtop