RonB wrote:
Rjack wrote:
So over the weekend I began to think about the GPL and my general
disdain for it. For a license that is touted as 'free', it certainly
doesn't feel that way. As a libertarian, I've often found myself baffled
by the leftist stance that freedom has to be enforced
RonB wrote:
Rjack wrote:
So over the weekend I began to think about the GPL and my general
disdain for it. For a license that is touted as 'free', it certainly
doesn't feel that way. As a libertarian, I've often found myself baffled
by the leftist stance that freedom has to be enforced with
Rjack wrote:
Forced sharing through copyright misuse is illegal theft.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Clause
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts,
by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors
the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 09:31:54AM -0400, Hyman Rosen wrote:
Rjack wrote:
Forced sharing through copyright misuse is illegal theft.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Clause
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts,
by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors
Rjack wrote:
...For a license that is touted as 'free', it certainly
doesn't feel that way...
http://www.tbradford.org/2008/09/kinder-gentler-free-software-license.html
That is because the author misunderstands the purpose of the
license. It is not about freedom for programmers. They are in
On 2008-09-16, Rjack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So over the weekend I began to think about the GPL and my general
disdain for it. For a license that is touted as 'free', it certainly
doesn't feel that way. As a libertarian, I've often found myself baffled
by the leftist stance that freedom
Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
[...]
The lawyer representing Skype still continued to argue for a bit into
that direction, which resulted one of the judges making up an
interesting analogy of something like: If a publisher wants to
publish
a book of an author
Alexander Terekhov wrote:
Here's a bit more sensible judge
Rui's judge was sitting on a case. Your judge is commenting
from the peanut gallery. Guess which one carries more weight.
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Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
[...]
http://laforge.gnumonks.org/weblog/
LOL!
http://laforge.gnumonks.org/weblog/linux/gpl-violations/index.html
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David Kastrup wrote:
[...]
The funny thing is that his proposed license is not a license (since it
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The GPL is not a tool for freedom, it is a tool of control, and I argue
that its overall effect on the art of software development as a whole
has been more destructive than it has been
7 wrote:
Micoshaft asstroturfing fraudster pounding the sock Rjack
wrote on behalf of Half Wits from Micoshaft Department of Marketing:
So
So over the weekend I began to think about the GPL and my general
love for it. For a license that is touted as 'free', it certainly
does feel that way.
Alexander Terekhov wrote:
The GPL is not a tool for freedom, it is a tool of control, and I argue
that its overall effect on the art of software development as a whole
has been more destructive than it has been beneficial.
Even if that were true, that's fine - it is not the goal
of the FSF to
It is interesting to note that compiling the source code of standard
program packages of independently authored c code (and assembler) like
the Linux kernel does not create a derivative work. Some people think
that compiling module1.c, module2.c, . . . into -o prgm translates
the source code into
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Pete Chown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
- ESR is suggesting using the NoDerivs option from Creative Commons.
Since Wesnoth as a whole is a derived work of its media files, I could
imagine this making it illegal to distribute the game at all. The same
It may be a
Micoshaft asstroturfing fraudster pounding the sock Rjack
wrote on behalf of Half Wits from Micoshaft Department of Marketing:
So
So over the weekend I began to think about the GPL and my general
love for it. For a license that is touted as 'free', it certainly
does feel that way. As a
People should be free to modify software because when they can't, they risk
privacy problems, compatibility problems, lack of control of their daily
lives, lack of control over their data, etc. These issues aren't the same
for music and art.
Yes, but these technical issues comes as side
Rjack wrote:
So over the weekend I began to think about the GPL and my general
disdain for it. For a license that is touted as 'free', it certainly
doesn't feel that way. As a libertarian, I've often found myself baffled
by the leftist stance that freedom has to be enforced with
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