Theresa Kehoe wrote: > Uh huh. And in the meanwhile, if you use it, "all your base are belong > to us".
Part of the problem is due to our draconian copyright law and Google is simply trying to protect itself: "11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. This license is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the Services and may be revoked for certain Services as defined in the Additional Terms of those Services." Strictly speaking, when an image search is conducted on Google, those thumbnails we see could be understood as derivative works and thusly would be in violation of copyright. Even a translation, w/o permission, is a copyright violation because it's considered derivative of the original work. So when we see that "Translate this page" option on a Google search result, it's theoretically a copyright violation to click on that. There's even some debate about whether hyperlinking is a copyright violation, especially deep linking to a page. When a Linux version becomes available and if there's still a different license for the source code and the binary, one solution would be to compile it ourselves, and even make alterations. Heck, if it's a BSD license, we simply have to attribute the source code, we could even make a proprietary version if we wanted to be evil. Anyway, it's not Google really. It's copyright law that causes all this legal idiocy. Sean --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
