Re: NYC LOCAL: Friday 1 April and Saturday 2 April 2011: Mobile Security Hackday and UN School Install Fest

2011-03-30 Thread flatfish+++
What a total fucking waste of time. The stench in that basement must be overwhelming. The smell of body odor and pizza is not a good one. On 30 Mar 2011 00:05:04 -0400, secret...@lxny.org wrote: blockquote what=two official announcements first='Don\'t be fooled' Mobile Security Hackday

Re: 9th Cir. License Primer

2011-03-30 Thread Alexander Terekhov
RJack wrote: [...] Now, the SFLC utterly ignores the circuit precedent and claims: Further, once Best Buy made a distribution of BusyBox that did not comply with the license terms, the license terminated, and therefore any further act of copying or distributing BusyBox by Best Buy (even if

Re: 9th Cir. License Primer

2011-03-30 Thread RJack
As the SFLC and Erik Andersen are learning to their dismay, a valid Copyright Office registration of an open source project such as a version of BusyBox requires the registration of all the *individual* contributors' work all the way back to the original author's initial contribution. In order

Re: 9th Cir. License Primer

2011-03-30 Thread David Kastrup
RJack u...@example.net writes: As the SFLC and Erik Andersen are learning to their dismay, a valid Copyright Office registration of an open source project such as a version of BusyBox requires the registration of all the *individual* contributors' work all the way back to the original

Re: 9th Cir. License Primer

2011-03-30 Thread Alexander Terekhov
David Kastrup wrote: [...] The respective chances for success of copyright enforcement in court are what causes the FSF to get copyright assignments ... Dear dak, you know quite well that Stallman has no balls to sue for copyright infringement because Stallman is in business of giving

Re: 9th Cir. License Primer

2011-03-30 Thread RJack
On 3/30/2011 10:28 AM, David Kastrup wrote: RJacku...@example.net writes: As the SFLC and Erik Andersen are learning to their dismay, a valid Copyright Office registration of an open source project such as a version of BusyBox requires the registration of all the *individual* contributors'

Re: 9th Cir. License Primer

2011-03-30 Thread David Kastrup
Alexander Terekhov terek...@web.de writes: David Kastrup wrote: [...] The respective chances for success of copyright enforcement in court are what causes the FSF to get copyright assignments ... Dear dak, you know quite well that Stallman has no balls to sue for copyright infringement

Re: 9th Cir. License Primer

2011-03-30 Thread Alexander Terekhov
David Kastrup wrote: [...] What rock have you been living under? The whole point of the GPL (as opposed to, say, BSD style licenses) is that it is firmly rooted in copyright ... In context, copyright means that the owner has exclusive right to copy in order to sell (permissions to make)

Re: Stuttgart 21 protests

2011-03-30 Thread Alexander Terekhov
Hey Mackenzie, Alexander Terekhov wrote: Alan Mackenzie wrote: [...] You agree with what you like, Alex. I have talked extensively with eye-witnesses, including one who was on the demonstration the police attacked by shooting people in the face with water canons on 30th Oh c'mon

Re: 9th Cir. License Primer

2011-03-30 Thread RJack
On 3/30/2011 6:04 PM, David Kastrup wrote: Alexander Terekhovterek...@web.de writes: David Kastrup wrote: [...] What rock have you been living under? The whole point of the GPL (as opposed to, say, BSD style licenses) is that it is firmly rooted in copyright ... In context, copyright