Re: US court says software is owned, not licensed

2009-10-11 Thread Rui Maciel
party. This is distint from *making a copy* of the copy. The only way this is a copyright infringement would be if you also had *made a copy* of the software (which would probably include the copy made when installing the software). Exactly. Rui Maciel

Re: US court says software is owned, not licensed

2009-10-11 Thread Rui Maciel
was the case with the eBay vender vs Autodesk case that citizen.org defended). It's irrelevant to this case if the license is or isn't the GPL. Rui Maciel ___ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc

Re: US court says software is owned, not licensed

2009-10-11 Thread Rui Maciel
and distribute their work to anyone interested, as long as they follow a set of conditions presented in the GPL. The copyright owners won't lose their rights over their work just because someone made an extra copy of it. Rui Maciel ___ gnu-misc

Re: Free software is dead.

2009-09-27 Thread Rui Maciel
agreement. So no, you got it backwards. Rui Maciel ___ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss

Re: why aren't gnu utils normalized?

2009-08-30 Thread Rui Maciel
version but they seem to mostly do the same thing as the old short version. What do you consider to be a modern, normalized set of options? Are you talking about the POSIX standard or some other way some program in Solaris accepts options? Rui Maciel

Re: Google to launch PC operating system

2009-07-09 Thread Rui Maciel
it will be open source. Well, if they are putting together an operating system and they already stated that the kernel of their operating system will be GPLed, then what's missing? If they happen to put up a non-GPLed window manager does that mean that their OS ceasses to be based on GPLed code? Rui

Re: Another GPL violation settled

2009-06-28 Thread Rui Maciel
Rjack wrote: Losing eight in a row could only be spuun into a victory by a dedicated true, blue, GNU Freetard. What exactly do you perceive to be a loss? Rui Maciel ___ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org

Re: Another GPL violation settled

2009-06-28 Thread Rui Maciel
redistributes it. That's what happened in this case. Rui Maciel ___ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss

Re: Another GPL violation settled

2009-06-28 Thread Rui Maciel
John Hasler wrote: According to Rjack you lose unless you go to trial and get a favorable judgement. That's an odd point of view. Rui Maciel ___ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc