Re: GPL and other licences

2006-02-09 Thread Bernd Jendrissek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stefaan A Eeckels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, as far as I understand it, you would be the only person in trouble. The company might have a pre-release of David's GPLed software, but this does not give you, their

Re: GPL and other licences

2006-02-09 Thread Alexander Terekhov
Alan Mackenzie wrote: [...] For example, just last week I needed a function which searches backwards a maximum of 3000 bytes from the end of file for Local Variables:, and then deletes any following lines containing mode: or eval:. I extracted the code which did the searching out of an

Re: Intellectual Property II

2006-02-09 Thread Alexander Terekhov
Wallace on predatory pricing: --- Predatory pricing The GPL establishes a predatory pricing scheme. Setting the maximum price of intellectual property at “no charge” removes all motive to compete. The Supreme Court has analyzed predatory pricing in a Sherman Act § 1 civil action: “…[T]his is

Re: Intellectual Property II

2006-02-09 Thread Alexander Terekhov
Wallace concludes: --- Conclusion The plaintiff Daniel Wallace in his Complaint has directly or inferentially alleged that the defendants have: (1) used an express contractual agreement to conspire with named co-conspirators and; (2) engaged in an unreasonable restraint of trade by pooling

Re: GPL and other licences

2006-02-09 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Alexander Terekhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Thu, 09 Feb 2006 16:59:54 +0100: Alan Mackenzie wrote: That is true. However, when you take two short stories, commingle paragraphs from one of them with paragraphs from the other, connecting them up with sentences of your own to give a new

Re: GPL and other licences

2006-02-09 Thread Alexander Terekhov
Alan Mackenzie wrote: [...] The actual source of the function I'm talking about (which is available in SourceForge) is materially different from the above. The extracted code (what you've called .locate_backwards_from_end) has been extensively changed from the original, yet is recognisably

Re: GPL and other licences

2006-02-09 Thread Alexander Terekhov
Alan Mackenzie wrote: Alexander Terekhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Thu, 09 Feb 2006 16:59:54 +0100: Alan Mackenzie wrote: That is true. However, when you take two short stories, commingle paragraphs from one of them with paragraphs from the other, connecting them up with

Re: GPL and other licences

2006-02-09 Thread David Kastrup
Alexander Terekhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alan Mackenzie wrote: Why do you try to be disparaging about GNU? My hobby. To each his own. Yeah, right. The GNU is the best of breed, I know. Not really. It's just immortal, so it has all the time in the world to improve. And that's an