On 10/25/06, Jay Askren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Maybe we need to have someone create another mailing list covering
intellectual property, copyright law, and what is legal and what is not.
This topic seems to come up a lot, and I it seems that people really like to
argue about it. It would be nice if these arguments would move to another
list so we could get back to creating open source software.
I apologize, because I have contributed to the discussion as well. I
personally like the legal and copyright discussions (I don't see them
as arguments), however I see your point here in that whether or not it
is legal or not to download music or video that is copyrighted
probably has nothing to do with OSS or the GPL or other OSS licenses
(if you can link it back to an OSS license I think that would be
okay). I think general copyright discussions ought to be okay on this
list though, so long as they don't venture from the GPL or another
open source license. Perhaps the music/video download discussion
(including my own) should stop though and move to another or new list
(anyone know of a good list to discuss stuff like this?). However,
I'd like to see this list self-regulate itself, so if anyone
disagrees, feel free to state your opinions.
In relation to OSS, perhaps this new Scouting merit badge could serve
as an opportunity to educate Scouts about OSS and licensing/IP
surrounding the various OSS licenses.
Jesse
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