On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 10:26:32 +0200 Lourens Veen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well, there is this little issue of an Open Hardware Foundation being > set up, without anyone knowing what open hardware is and what should or > shouldn't be supported by that foundation. If I were to donate to that > fuondation, I'd like to know that it's not going to spend that money on > creating proprietary hardware. touché > This was more intended to be background information. The free software > definition includes the freedom to use the programme for any purpose. > The GPL, being a copyright licence, does not cover that freedom, > because copyright does not restrict use. In fact, the GPL explicitly > says that use is outside of its scope. In fact, laws can change (and > intellectual property laws can be bought it seems) so that we can not > take for granted that some right that is not limited by a law today > will still be there tomorrow. Still, it can't hurt to know a bit about > the legal landscape. Ok, i missunderstood you then. I agree that we need to know what is legally possible, but we should not spend too much time on it. > > Please also note, that there are very few legal problems in the > > OSS world. I've only heard about a dozen or so legal skirmishes > > in the last 7 years. Most of them about usage of a name or logo. > > Very few were about copyright (and all but two about a company > > breaking the GPL) > > http://www.gpl-violations.org/about.html#history ack > > We neither need examples nor usecases. They'll apear by themselves > > when the time is right. > > Or when it's too late: people complaining about their donations to the > OHF being spent on things they don't agree with, open HDL being ripped > off, and so on. Hmm... people will always complain, but yes, we shouldn't ask for it either. Attila Kinali -- egp ist vergleichbar mit einem ikea bausatz fuer flugzeugtraeger -- reeler in +kaosu _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
