David Kastrup wrote: [...] > Doesn't matter as long as it is no judge rolling with laughter. Once it > is, there is case law against plugin copyright creep, and nobody will be > more happy about that than the FSF.
"plugin copyright creep" LOL. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/copyright-versus-community.html "RMS: ... To be using three years old software is not a disaster. AM3: Don't you think this is a system that would favour feature creep? RMS: [airily] Ah that's OK. That's a minor side issue, compared with these issues of freedom encouraging, every system encourages some artificial distortions in what people, and our present system certainly encourages various kinds of artificial distortions in activity that is covered by copyright so if a changed system also encourages a few of these secondary distortions it's not a big deal I would say. AM4: The problem with this change in the copyright laws for three would be that you wouldn't get the sources. RMS: Right. There would have also to be a condition, a law that to sell copies of the software to the public the source code must be deposited somewhere so that three years later it can be released. So it could be deposited say, with the library of congress in the US, and I think other countries have similar institutions where copies of published books get placed, and they could also received the source code and after three years, publish it. And of course, if the source code didn't correspond to the executable that would be fraud, and in fact if it really corresponds then they ought to be able to check that very easily when the work is published initially so you're publishing the source code and somebody there says alright dot slash configure dot slash make and sees if produces the same executables and uh. So you're right, just eliminating copyright would not make software free. AM5: Um libre RMS: Right. That's the only sense I use the term. ..." ROFL. > David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum regards, alexander. -- http://gng.z505.com/index.htm (GNG is a derecursive recursive derecursion which pwns GNU since it can be infinitely looped as GNGNGNGNG...NGNGNG... and can be said backwards too, whereas GNU cannot.) _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
