Hi Jesse, ++1 to your last paragraph!
Kind regards, Manfred Riem [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.manorrock.org/ Founding Java Champion -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jesse Stay Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 9:53 AM To: LDS Open Source Software Subject: Re: [Ldsoss] Boy Scouts get a "Respect Copyrights" activity badge 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 -- #!/usr/bin/perl $^=q;@!>~|{>krw>yn{u<$$<Sn||n<|}j=<$$<Yn{u<Qjltn{ > 0gFzD gD, 00Fz, 0,,( 0hF 0g)F/=, 0> "L$/GEIFewe{,$/ 0C$~> "@=,m,|,(e 0.), 01,pnn,y{ rw} >;,$0=q,$,,($_=$^)=~y,$/ C-~><@=\n\r,-~$:-u/ #y,d,s,(\$.),$1,gee,print _______________________________________________ Ldsoss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss _______________________________________________ Ldsoss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
