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I have, using ‘reportbug --kudos nameofthepackage’, sent five love
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As a curious man, whom did you send it to? :)
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However, it's pretty clear that their licensing terms are that you
cannot use it with a non-free server back-end, which effectively
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I think artists should be free to earn money for their work pretty
much however they please; I don't think it should be limited to
patronage/begging.
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On 09-Feb-2008, Reinhard Mueller wrote:
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In other words, if copyright truly did not exist, and everyone had the
same freedoms (and more) in every work, not just those that have such
freedoms explicitly granted by the GPL
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The FDL was specifically designed for manuals accompanying programs.
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Is copyright the only violation they are claiming? Ignore
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'draft-housley-tls-authz-extns'.
As far as I know, there is only a patent
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If you truly want the policy to be robust, it's important to avoid
the fallacy that programs can be discretely separated from other
interpretations of digital information.
That's not a fallacy, it's
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It's a fact that bit-collections can be simultaneously program,
documentation, art, and documentation. Therefore it's a
fallacy to name those categories and expect that bit-collections
will fall
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The license is not a contract. The recipient of the work has
certain freedoms, but has *no* power over the copyright holder.
This is interesting. Are you sure of that, I mean, do lawyers agree
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What about Berlios?
Better don't get into the schily trap :-)
I wasn't aware of any connection to Jeorg Schilling;
Seriously, Berlios is a project of The Fraunhofer Society; well
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