Re: GPLv3 comedy unfolding -- raya's research on The Four Freedoms

2006-10-05 Thread Alexander Terekhov
From groklaw comments to Eben Moglen: A Renewed Invitation to Kernel Developers... I realize that Linus was never interested in the four freedoms the GPL was supposed to ensure. The earliest reference to the four freedoms that I can find is around 1999 (feel free to prove me wrong,

Re: GPLv3 comedy unfolding -- raya's research on The Four Freedoms

2006-10-05 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Qui, 2006-10-05 às 09:43 +0200, Alexander Terekhov escreveu: From groklaw comments to Eben Moglen: A Renewed Invitation to Kernel Developers... I realize that Linus was never interested in the four freedoms the GPL was supposed to ensure. The earliest reference to the four

Re: What DMCA stands for

2006-10-05 Thread David Kastrup
Rui Miguel Silva Seabra [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Qua, 2006-10-04 às 23:23 +0200, Alfred M. Szmidt escreveu: I'm surprised that people haven't found a neat re-read of DMCA as they have of DRM (at least I haven't seen any yet). I'm not particularly good at it, but I'll throw a

Re: GPLv3 comedy unfolding -- raya's research on The Four Freedoms

2006-10-05 Thread Alexander Terekhov
Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: [...] http://groups.google.com/group/net.micro/browse_thread/thread/9e8efc7fd71be471 The above link is to a post from 1985! Which reprints RMS's article on That's the GNU Manifesto (original, without footnotes), retard mini-RMS. GNU, which stands for Gnu's Not

Re: German-GPL victorious in Frankfurt district court

2006-10-05 Thread Alexander Terekhov
Merijn de Weerd wrote: [...] Therefore under German law, once I accept the GPL terms, I have a right to redistribute GPL-licensed software. However, I can protest unreasonable or illegal terms in the contract Not according to Welte's friends at ifross/jbb (Jaeger Co. gang). Because, they

Re: GPLv3 comedy unfolding -- raya's research on The Four Freedoms

2006-10-05 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
People are ofcourse allowed to correct themself, and clarify the terms they use to be clearer. Perfectly clear ideas don't pop up like mushrooms, not even for Richard. ___ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org

Re: GPLv3 comedy unfolding -- raya's research on The Four Freedoms

2006-10-05 Thread Richard Tobin
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rui Miguel Silva Seabra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The web didn't really start with http, there were many other things, like newsgroups: There were many other things, but they weren't the web. In the case of newsgroups, they weren't even the internet. -- Richard

Re: What DMCA stands for

2006-10-05 Thread David Kastrup
Alfred M. Szmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: EU Censorship Directive What does it have to do with censorship? The point was not to replace one misleading name with a more misleading one. It isn't misleading, the EUCD (like the DMCA) disallow people from sharing, a form of

Re: What DMCA stands for

2006-10-05 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
Censorship is about stopping original content being propagated, not about stopping the propagation of material copyrighted by somebody else. Copyrighted material is often original material, DMCA/EUCD stop the propagation of this material, even if all users have this moral right; thus,

Re: GPLv3 comedy unfolding -- raya's research on The Four Freedoms

2006-10-05 Thread Richard Tobin
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alfred M. Szmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There were many other things, but they weren't the web. In the case of newsgroups, they weren't even the internet. Depends very much on what you define as the internet. I mean the large network running internet

Re: GPLv3 comedy unfolding -- raya's research on The Four Freedoms

2006-10-05 Thread Alexander Terekhov
More perspectives... http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/ch09.html (The GNU General Public License) --- Although helpful in codifying the social contract of the Emacs Commune, the Emacs 15 license remained too informal for the purposes of the GNU Project, Stallman says. Soon after

Re: GPLv3 comedy unfolding -- raya's research on The Four Freedoms

2006-10-05 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
There were many other things, but they weren't the web. In the case of newsgroups, they weren't even the internet. Depends very much on what you define as the internet. I mean the large network running internet protocols. And that depends on what you define as an internet

Re: GPLv3 comedy unfolding -- raya's research on The Four Freedoms

2006-10-05 Thread Richard Tobin
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alfred M. Szmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There were many other things, but they weren't the web. In the case of newsgroups, they weren't even the internet. Depends very much on what you define as the internet. I mean the large network running

Re: What DMCA stands for

2006-10-05 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Qui, 2006-10-05 às 10:51 +0200, David Kastrup escreveu: Rui Miguel Silva Seabra [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Qua, 2006-10-04 às 23:23 +0200, Alfred M. Szmidt escreveu: I'm surprised that people haven't found a neat re-read of DMCA as they have of DRM (at least I haven't seen any yet).

Re: GPLv3 comedy unfolding -- raya's research on The Four Freedoms

2006-10-05 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Qui, 2006-10-05 às 11:06 +0200, Alexander Terekhov escreveu: Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: [...] http://groups.google.com/group/net.micro/browse_thread/thread/9e8efc7fd71be471 The above link is to a post from 1985! Which reprints RMS's article on That's the GNU Manifesto (original,

Re: What DMCA stands for

2006-10-05 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
EU Censorship Directive What does it have to do with censorship? The point was not to replace one misleading name with a more misleading one. It isn't misleading, the EUCD (like the DMCA) disallow people from sharing, a form of censorship via

Re: What DMCA stands for

2006-10-05 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Qui, 2006-10-05 às 17:24 +0200, Alfred M. Szmidt escreveu: EU Censorship Directive What does it have to do with censorship? The point was not to replace one misleading name with a more misleading one. It isn't misleading, the EUCD (like the

Re: What DMCA stands for

2006-10-05 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
Alfred, I think even you got confused thanks to your mail client not attributing quotes. Urgh, it wasn't the quotes. Just my incapability to read today... I thought you replied to my message. Sorry for the confusion. Less caffine, more sleep

Re: What DMCA stands for

2006-10-05 Thread Jay Belanger
Alfred M. Szmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... This is censorship. Why are you disagreeing with me when I agreeing with you? We agree on what censorship is after all... Confusing to say the least! Dis Mess Confuses All. ___ gnu-misc-discuss

Re: GPLv3 comedy unfolding -- raya's research on The Four Freedoms

2006-10-05 Thread John Hasler
Rui writes: Erms... the Internet is now based on IP, as it may be very well based on something else in the future, and certainly didn't start as IP... It most certainly did. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI USA ___

Re: GPLv3 comedy unfolding -- raya's research on The Four Freedoms

2006-10-05 Thread Richard Tobin
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rui Miguel Silva Seabra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There were many other things, but they weren't the web. In the case of newsgroups, they weren't even the internet. Erms... the Internet is now based on IP, as it may be very well based on something else in the

Re: GPLv3 comedy unfolding -- raya's research on The Four Freedoms

2006-10-05 Thread Richard Tobin
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], I wrote: Well, it seems a little strange to say it was the internet when it wasn't called the internet and was based on internet protocols, Obviously I meant wasn't based on internet protocols. -- Richard ___

Re: GPLv3 comedy unfolding -- raya's research on The Four Freedoms

2006-10-05 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
Newsgroups were originally distributed by UUCP, and that certainly wasn't the internet. Newsgroups (and mail) where distributed using various means. UUCP was just one of them. Can we please stop this history revisionism? ___ gnu-misc-discuss

Re: GPLv3 comedy unfolding -- raya's research on The Four Freedoms

2006-10-05 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Qui, 2006-10-05 às 10:45 -0500, John Hasler escreveu: Rui writes: Erms... the Internet is now based on IP, as it may be very well based on something else in the future, and certainly didn't start as IP... It most certainly did. If I had said ONLY that you could be right. Why distort what

Re: What DMCA stands for

2006-10-05 Thread Merijn de Weerd
On 2006-10-05, Alfred M. Szmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Censorship is about stopping original content being propagated, not about stopping the propagation of material copyrighted by somebody else. Copyrighted material is often original material, DMCA/EUCD stop the propagation of

Re: German-GPL victorious in Frankfurt district court

2006-10-05 Thread Merijn de Weerd
On 2006-10-05, Alexander Terekhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Merijn de Weerd wrote: Therefore under German law, once I accept the GPL terms, I have a right to redistribute GPL-licensed software. However, I can protest unreasonable or illegal terms in the contract Not according to Welte's

Re: German-GPL victorious in Frankfurt district court

2006-10-05 Thread alexander . terekhov
Merijn de Weerd schrieb: [...] Why do you bring up a US doctrine when we're talking German Talking German? Well, omniscient of heise: Das Urteil sollte mit der Berufung angegriffen werden. Das Gericht hat rechtsfehlerhafter Weise die Prüfung eines Verstoßes von Art.81 EGV u. §1

Re: What DMCA stands for

2006-10-05 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Qui, 2006-10-05 às 20:04 +0200, Merijn de Weerd escreveu: On 2006-10-05, Alfred M. Szmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Censorship is about stopping original content being propagated, not about stopping the propagation of material copyrighted by somebody else. Copyrighted material

Re: What DMCA stands for

2006-10-05 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Qui, 2006-10-05 às 23:09 +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra escreveu: Qui, 2006-10-05 às 20:04 +0200, Merijn de Weerd escreveu: On 2006-10-05, Alfred M. Szmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Censorship is about stopping original content being propagated, not about stopping the propagation of

Re: GPLv3 comedy unfolding -- raya's research on The Four Freedoms

2006-10-05 Thread Richard Tobin
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alfred M. Szmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Newsgroups were originally distributed by UUCP, and that certainly wasn't the internet. Newsgroups (and mail) where distributed using various means. UUCP was just one of them. Can we please stop this history