On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 04:50:51PM +1000, Adrian Colomitchi wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Ben Finney <
> ben+freesoftw...@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
>
> > Adam Bolte
> > writes:
> >
> > > Once again, your definition conflicts with what the legal Free
> > > Dictionary appears to be (linke
Adrian Colomitchi
writes:
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Ben Finney <
> ben+freesoftw...@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
>
> > Adam Bolte
> > writes:
> >
> > > Once again, your definition conflicts with what the legal Free
> > > Dictionary appears to be (linked above). A PDF is generally a product
>
On 23/07/13 10:26, Ben Finney wrote:
This is distinct from a PDF renderer, which takes the input document
and parses its structure and content, but then must go further and
execute the result as a program in order to render to output.
Actually that's not so clear; as I understand it, the subse
Glenn McIntosh
writes:
> Ben, I'd be interested in your (and others) opinion on the way Trisquel
> have given "guidelines" for the use of their trademark
> (http://trisquel.info/en/wiki/trademark-guidelines). Though I'm not sure
> what the legal status of such guidelines are.
As I wrote in the a
Ben Finney
writes:
> Not all interpreters are interpreting executable programs as input.
> Your “ASCII interpreter” is not treating the input document as a
> program. It is parsing the document's structure and content, but not
> executing the result as a program. A plain-text email message is dat
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Ben Finney <
ben+freesoftw...@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> Ben Finney
> writes:
>
>
> Rather, my point is that these categories are not exclusive. Works
> commonly inhabit several of these categories simultaneously, and it's
> clearly false to say that no document
Adrian Colomitchi
writes:
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Ben Finney
> wrote:
> > From that it follows that it's unjust to deny the freedoms that accrue
> > for functional use of a work, merely because the copyright holder
> > doesn't think it has functional use.
> >
> My argument is: "sinc
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Ben Finney <
ben+freesoftw...@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> Adrian Colomitchi
> writes:
>
> > On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Ben Finney <
> ben+freesoftw...@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> > > From that it follows that it's unjust to deny the freedoms that accrue
> > > f
