Re: [backstage] Muddy Boots on Backstage

2007-11-26 Thread Matt Lee
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Re: [backstage] How long should copyright last?

2007-11-29 Thread Matt Lee
Michael Sparks wrote: That's a rights expression, and is therefore a DRM. The restrictions however aren't enforced by anything other than your clearly high good will and estimation of Ian and your basic desire to not give him a headache :-) That's not DRM, that's rights expression, as you

Re: [backstage] How long should copyright last?

2007-11-29 Thread Matt Lee
Noah Slater wrote: On 29/11/2007, Noah Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cc:prohibits rdf:resource=http://web.resource.org/cc/CommercialUse/ I would hasten to point out that I do not approve of non-commercial clauses. Avoid this licence and choose one that doesn't restrict freedom

Re: [backstage] The BBC Backstage Christmas Party 2007

2007-11-30 Thread Matt Lee
Dave Crossland wrote: Who else is up for this? :-) How many other people would attend a parallel event, run somewhere outside London, like.. Manchester? matt signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [backstage] Please release Perl on Rails as Free Software

2007-12-05 Thread Matt Lee
vijay chopra wrote: I've read that page a number of times previously, it doesn't counter any of my queries or objections to GPLv3. For example, the perceived problem of tivoisation runs counter to the first freedom the freedom to use software for any purpose. Do TIVO (or indeed other

Re: [backstage] Please release Perl on Rails as Free Software

2007-12-05 Thread Matt Lee
vijay chopra wrote: Again, like you, IANAL and haven't scrutinized the full text of GPLv3, but from what I've read it seems to me that it actually limits the users freedoms by limiting the hardware that it can run on; indeed the tivoisation clause seems to go against the first of the FSFs

Re: [backstage] Please release Perl on Rails as Free Software

2007-12-05 Thread Matt Lee
vijay chopra wrote: What about their freedom to use the software for *any* purpose? ( http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html) I don't see that quote on that page. Please don't misquote us :) * The freedom to run the program, for any purpose * The freedom to study how the program works,

Re: [backstage] Please release Perl on Rails as Free Software

2007-12-06 Thread Matt Lee
Thomas Leitch wrote: You know if Godwin's first law was that as an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one. Then his second law must state that for any Backstage discussion that grows longer, the probability that the topics of

Re: [backstage] Please release Perl on Rails as Free Software

2007-12-06 Thread Matt Lee
Dan, Please stop posting the same message :) matt signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [backstage] Please release Perl on Rails as Free Software

2007-12-07 Thread Matt Lee
Steve Jolly wrote: To eliminate confusion, I propose that we in future refer to the FSF definition of free as GNU/Free. I thank you. Or you could say 'free software, as defined by the Free Software Foundation', which is more accurate and doesn't fall into the logical trap of everything having