Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software

2005-03-12 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 18:14:22 + Rui Miguel Seabra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 16:49 +0100, Stefaan A Eeckels wrote: On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 15:05:04 +0100 Alexander Terekhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is perfectly false in case of static linking as well

Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software

2005-03-13 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 10:37:43 +0100 Martin Dickopp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I find it unconvincing to argue that a program is not a derivative work of a dynamic library just because this case is not properly covered by a non-limitative list of illustrations. The enumeration illustrates the way

Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software

2005-03-13 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 14:31:15 +0100 David Kastrup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stefaan A Eeckels [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A book that refers the user to a dictionary for the definition of a number of words is not a derivative work of that dictionary. So why are there numerous court

Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software

2005-03-13 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 18:59:23 +0100 David Kastrup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stefaan A Eeckels [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tell me to respect the wishes of the author, and I'm all with you, even if these wishes seem - at first sight - rather outlandish. But this lunatic fight to get

Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software

2005-03-14 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 01:14:51 -0500 Alfred M. Szmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You wanna write an app for our OS? Ask our permission first. Thank you. If you license your code under a Free Software license, then you recived that permission[0]. The FSF doesn't care for people who wish to

Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software

2005-03-14 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 12:12:29 +0100 Martin Dickopp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stefaan A Eeckels [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 10:37:43 +0100 Martin Dickopp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I find it unconvincing to argue that a program is not a derivative work of a dynamic

Re: Licensing question about the GPL

2005-08-02 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
On Mon, 01 Aug 2005 18:51:06 -0400 Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've heard this used as a counterargument against the claim that GPL is a viral license (I don't use that term in a derogatory way, I thought that was the whole point to the GPL!). However, the argument that I've heard

Re: GPL and other licences

2006-02-05 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
On Sun, 05 Feb 2006 12:12:30 +0100 Alfred M\. Szmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The workers are also the licensees. They are not. The company has signed the license. The employees did not sign anything, and hence aren't licensees. For the purposes of the law, a company is a separate entity (a

Re: GPL and other licences

2006-02-05 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
On Sun, 05 Feb 2006 11:08:41 -0600 John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The owner of the copyright might be able to as his copyright may have been infringed. I'm assuming that he and the employer are different. I don't think that the employer has any claim, though. He still has his property

Re: GPL and other licences

2006-02-05 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
On Sun, 05 Feb 2006 21:10:25 +0100 Alfred M\. Szmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The workers are also the licensees. They are not. The company has signed the license. The employees did not sign anything, and hence aren't licensees. For the purposes of the law, a company is a

Re: GPL and other licences

2006-02-05 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
On Sun, 05 Feb 2006 23:09:08 +0100 David Kastrup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stefaan A Eeckels [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In the case of unmodified GPLed software the case is moot, because it can be obtained from a large number of sources and has no intrinsic value. You can't obtain GPLed

Re: GPL and other licences

2006-02-07 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
On Mon, 06 Feb 2006 23:35:00 +0100 Alfred M\. Szmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the case of our friend Backslash, I'm assuming that I am this Backslash person; if I'm not ignore the following: Have the decency to call me by my name, instead of calling me obscure names. As you've

Re: GPL and other licences

2006-02-10 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 23:35:38 +0100 Alfred M\. Szmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nonsense. The GPL can't dictate that people may access my physical copies of software. Sighs, I am not talking about _physical_ copies. Got that? Not the CD, but the content. The content does not exist

Re: GPL and other licences

2006-02-10 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 02:11:23 +0100 Alfred M\. Szmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having a hard time following your message, you speak of property and ownership of software, neither of which are applicable to software. You cannot own software; since you cannot own software, it cannot be

Re: GPL and other licences

2006-02-12 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 00:11:52 + Graham Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Kastrup [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Your access is limited to what the owner of the copy allows you to do with it. The GPL grants rights to the owner of the copy, not to you. Since you have not bought or

Re: GPL and other licences

2006-02-12 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 12:35:30 +0100 Alfred M\. Szmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please refrain from removing attributions. If you quote, have the decency to include the name of the author. I said: No, he instructed you, as his agent, to do things with the CD. You are not accessing that CD as

Re: GPL and other licences

2006-02-12 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 17:36:44 + Graham Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stefaan A Eeckels [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The assertion that the GPL gives you the right to make unlawful copies is obviously incorrect, as it is not a right the copyright holder can grant. GPL or otherwise

Re: GPL and other licences

2006-02-13 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 19:25:51 -0600 Isaac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 18:16:56 +0100, Stefaan A Eeckels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 09:22:38 -0600 Isaac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure whether I agree that you have to own a copy of GPL software

Re: GPL and other licences

2006-02-13 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 08:24:25 -0600 John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stefaan writes: I believe that in both cases, the person or entity wishing to accept the GPL has to be in possession of a lawful copy. I believe that he must _own_ a copy. A bailee or agent can be in lawful

Re: GPL and other licences

2006-02-13 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 23:27:23 +0100 Alfred M\. Szmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is netiquette. Group reply is common. It is not, and additionally it is customary to mention that you mailed and posted in your reply if you do so. If you have such a hard time figuring out who wrote what,

Re: GPL and other licences

2006-02-13 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
On Tue, 14 Feb 2006 02:10:22 +0100 Alfred M\. Szmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That was not what I asked. You have placed a lot of software (under the GPL and under more restrictive licenses) and on your disk, and for the sake of the argument, your disk needs to be recovered. You

Re: GPL and other licences

2006-02-13 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
On Tue, 14 Feb 2006 08:17:17 +0100 Stefaan A Eeckels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Surely we're discussing how many angles can dance on a pinhead. Darn spellcheckers. It's angels of course :-) -- Stefaan -- As complexity rises, precise statements lose meaning, and meaningful statements lose

Re: GPL and other licences

2006-02-15 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 15:09:08 + Graham Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I doubt that the intention was to provide more rights to users of modified programs which read commands interactively than to users of any other software licensed under the GPL. Therefore by extrapolation it is saying

Re: GPL and other licences

2006-02-15 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 20:51:56 + Graham Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can see nothing in the FAQ you quoted which states that this is not the case, but one part 'However, putting the program on a server machine for the public to talk to is hardly private use, so it would be legitimate

Re: Preferred form for making modifications

2006-02-28 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 08:47:58 + (UTC) Bernd Jendrissek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rui Miguel Silva Seabra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe, but since there's no source code, there's little value in using the GPL, and if it was used, a distributor could find himself

Re: Preferred form for making modifications

2006-02-28 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 14:39:10 + (UTC) Bernd Jendrissek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not aware of any other licences that prohibit further restrictions on downstream recipients. As a more or less kind-hearted head of an otherwise evil empire, you might be willing to give away your

Re: DLL Copyright

2006-05-16 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
credit to author #2, it stands to reason you should give credit to author #1. Similarly, in an About topic it behooves to credit all authors. Take care, -- Stefaan A Eeckels -- A ship in the harbor is safe. But that's not what ships are built for. -- Rear Admiral Dr

Re: DLL Copyright

2006-05-17 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
On 16 May 2006 19:43:56 -0700 Jacob JKW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stefaan A Eeckels wrote: Authors retain the copyright to the code they wrote. How the code is packaged has no bearing on that. Showing copyright information when the program starts or is running is not a prerequisite

Re: GPL licenced Java application using non GPL jars (libraries)

2006-05-22 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
enough, heed the wishes of the authors of the stuff you used. -- Stefaan A Eeckels -- The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself. -- Winston Churchill ___ gnu-misc-discuss mailing

Re: GPL licenced Java application using non GPL jars (libraries)

2006-05-22 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
On Mon, 22 May 2006 17:59:17 +0200 Alexander Terekhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stefaan A Eeckels wrote: [...] Your source code is yours to license as you please. The fact that it uses the Java mechanisms to call library code does not make it a derivative work of these libraries

Re: GPL licenced Java application using non GPL jars (libraries)

2006-05-22 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
for a violation of the license. Putting software under the GPL can only be a problem if it contains non-original elements that have a license that prohibits this. You do not have to honour the GPL, it's those who receive it who have to abide by it. -- Stefaan A Eeckels -- There's nothing wrong

Re: GPL requirement could have a chilling effect on derivative distros

2006-06-29 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
of transferring to a removable medium are copies, and because they are not material to running the program, they would not fall under the relevant exemption. In the absence of clear definitions, the interpretations of the courts become crucial. Take care, -- Stefaan A Eeckels -- Q

Re: GPL requirement could have a chilling effect on derivative distros

2006-06-29 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 16:31:18 +0200 Alexander Terekhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stefaan A Eeckels wrote: [... first sale ...] In the absence of clear definitions, the interpretations of the courts become crucial. http://www.copyright.gov/reports/studies/dmca/sec-104-report-vol-1.pdf

Re: GPL requirement could have a chilling effect on derivative distros

2006-06-29 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
? Take care, -- Stefaan A Eeckels -- A ship in the harbor is safe. But that's not what ships are built for. -- Rear Admiral Dr. Grace Murray Hopper. ___ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http

Re: GPL requirement could have a chilling effect on derivativedistros

2006-06-29 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 19:35:50 +0200 Alexander Terekhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stefaan A Eeckels wrote: [...] There is no dispute that section 109 applies to works in digital form. Physical copies of works in a digital format, such as CDs or DVDs, are subject to section 109

Re: GPL requirement could have a chilling effect on derivativedistros

2006-06-30 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
that there are a lot of dishonourable people around who cannot resist the temptation... -- Stefaan A Eeckels -- Governments are like babies: digestive tracts with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. The better run ones from time to time get clean diapers

Re: GPL requirement could have a chilling effect on derivativedistros

2006-06-30 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
. AFAIK, most if not all European countries have what is more accurately described as Author's Rights than Copyright laws. Under these laws certain rights are inalienable, which is not the case in the USA. -- Stefaan A Eeckels -- The one thing IT really needs to outsource is the freakin' clueless

Re: license question with non-GPL library

2006-08-16 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
installs) a system library in the GPL sense if your program is based on GNOME (i.e. requires a GNOME installation to compile and function). Take care, -- Stefaan A Eeckels -- He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave. (Sir William Drummond

Re: GNU licenses

2006-09-04 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
they might like to argue that one should only be allowed to sell food if it's served on genuine crockery with genuine cutlery. The privilege of choice is with the customer. Still. Take care, -- Stefaan A Eeckels -- Q: If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people in the world

Re: GNU licenses

2006-09-04 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
of its author. Take care, -- Stefaan A Eeckels -- The one thing IT really needs to outsource is the freakin' clueless managers that don't understand that there are more possibilities than chaos on the one hand and the reduction of alternatives to zero on the other

Re: GNU licenses

2006-09-04 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
work, -- Stefaan A Eeckels -- How's it supposed to get the respect of management if you've got just one guy working on the project? It's much more impressive to have a battery of programmers slaving away. -- Jeffrey Hobbs (comp.lang.tcl) ___ gnu-misc

Re: GNU licenses

2006-09-04 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
On Mon, 04 Sep 2006 11:34:40 +0200 Alexander Terekhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stefaan A Eeckels wrote: [...] royalties, or a license fee). If you come to such an agreement, you can distribute the combined work under another license (or no license at all, in which case standard

Re: GNU licenses

2006-09-04 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
arguments? As a matter of fact, it removes what little credibility you might have left. -- Stefaan A Eeckels -- You know, it is almost always the case in the real world that something is fair when you like it and unfair when you don't. -- Jeffrey Siegal

Re: GNU licenses

2006-09-04 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
On Mon, 04 Sep 2006 15:22:18 +0200 David Kastrup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stefaan A Eeckels [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 04 Sep 2006 13:52:55 +0200 Alexander Terekhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sez who? Copying (and distribution) under 17 USC 117 (together with 109), for example

Re: GNU licenses

2006-09-04 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
On Mon, 04 Sep 2006 14:54:10 -0500 John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or perhaps you will have to write your own code. Ouch! that sucks :) -- Stefaan A Eeckels -- When the need is strong, there are those who will believe anything

Re: GNU licenses

2006-09-04 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
On 4 Sep 2006 15:28:33 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stefaan A Eeckels wrote: [...] The GPL vision of software is more like how science is practiced Rather funny practice in the context of the GPL you're talking about. Most researches with the focus on industrial application (i.e

Re: GNU licenses

2006-09-04 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
I see it, and how I believe a Court might see it. Thus, if I were the copyright holder, I would not sue you in the first case, and would most definitely sue you in the second case. -- Stefaan A Eeckels -- I can understand that some people are cheap. I can't accept that they also appear deeply

Re: Donating Time Series Software to the Open Source

2006-09-05 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
www.javaforge.com Novell forge.novell.com They have various services, such as SVN or CVS version management, mailing list support, incident/bug reporting tools etc. I suggest you spend some time on each site to see which suits you best. Take care, -- Stefaan A Eeckels -- Shun those who say we have eyes

Re: GNU licenses

2006-09-05 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
the toll, but don't suggest that somehow my building the road was amoral because now you can no longer bear to use the existing public roads. -- Stefaan A Eeckels -- People don't ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have one good soul-satisfying emotion than a dozen facts

Re: GNU licenses

2006-09-05 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
what can be adequately explained by stupidity. However: Sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice. -- Stefaan A Eeckels -- Isn't it amazing how a large number of evil morons can give the appearance of being a single evil genius? --Mel Rimmer

Re: GNU licenses

2006-09-05 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
On 5 Sep 2006 12:33:24 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stefaan A Eeckels wrote: Well I could, and it depends on the type of project I have planned. If the project is not a commercial venture in any form, I have NO PROBLEMS with GPLing it, provided I am not going to reuse some of the original

Re: Using GPL software

2006-10-01 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
the license of one of them does not have an impact on the other. -- Stefaan A Eeckels -- The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind. --H. L. Mencken ___ gnu-misc-discuss

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

2006-10-07 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
indicate which meaning is implied. It would seem that what constitutes an Operating System has always been open to interpretation. -- Stefaan A Eeckels -- Governments are like babies: digestive tracts with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. The better run ones from

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

2006-10-07 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
, Kernighan and Pike would not have felt it necessary to qualify the term. Both quotes indicate that already in the early 80s, operating system had a broader meaning than merely the kernel. -- Stefaan A Eeckels -- A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn

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

2006-10-07 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
with development tools for MS-DOS. Bundling development tools was so exceptional that all Unix vendors had unbundled them by the early 90s. -- Stefaan A Eeckels -- One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation. -- Thomas

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

2006-10-07 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
influenced by Unix. Take care, -- Stefaan A Eeckels -- Q: If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people in the world? A: Because they don't know they're ignorant. ___ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http

Re: More GPL questions

2006-10-16 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
do you think that the license of the example would also apply to your library? Licenses aren't like viruses that jump from library to library through example programs. Take care, -- Stefaan A Eeckels -- Modesty personified: This was a thread between ignorant people until I jumped

Re: More GPL questions

2006-10-16 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
a program that knows how to quote you'd be less susceptible to foot-in-mouth disease. -- Stefaan A Eeckels -- One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation. -- Thomas Reed

Re: More GPL questions

2006-10-17 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
of either the libraries, or the language. Unless source code is plagiarised, or a modification of an existing work, it's original. -- Stefaan A Eeckels -- And as crazy as this sounds, people tend to be able to manage systems better if they have a good internal mental model of how the system works

Re: More GPL questions

2006-10-17 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
of that library. The OP is proposing to add source code examples to his library. Assuming he did not base his source on existing source code examples of Qt, these examples are his original work, and not affected by the Qt, X, OpenGL, or whatever other license. -- Stefaan A Eeckels -- A human being should

Re: More GPL questions

2006-10-17 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 10:04:23 +0200 David Kastrup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stefaan A Eeckels [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:05:58 +0200 Merijn de Weerd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2006-10-16, Alfred M. Szmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This example program would

Re: More GPL questions

2006-10-17 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 12:10:45 +0200 Stefaan A Eeckels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the distributor can prove that one typical use case for a customer would be to let the code rot away without ever compiling or linking it (indeed a typical use case for example code), then the product does

Re: More GPL questions

2006-10-17 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 12:32:34 +0200 David Kastrup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stefaan A Eeckels [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I write an original program that happens to use your GPLed library. I license my source code under a non-Free license to Alex. He compiles my code, and links it with your

Re: More GPL questions

2006-10-17 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 14:51:48 +0200 David Kastrup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stefaan A Eeckels [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: An original program in source code format, and contains function and/or system calls does not consist of revisions, annotations, elaborations or other modifications

Re: More GPL questions

2006-10-17 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
is absolutely fine. You could consider using the BSD license for the examples, so that people can use them without restrictions in their own developments. Guys, thanks for all the information. It was quite a read. It tends to get animated in here. Nice you didn't walk away in despair :). -- Stefaan

Re: More GPL questions

2006-10-17 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 17:49:53 +0200 David Kastrup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stefaan A Eeckels [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 14:51:48 +0200 David Kastrup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stefaan A Eeckels [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: An original program in source code format

Re: More GPL questions

2006-10-17 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 23:49:05 +0200 David Kastrup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Stefaan A Eeckels writes: I firmly believe that the OP can distribute his example programs, or even complete, useful programs in source format, under whatever license he

Re: License Dilemma

2006-11-29 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
have written successful books, or produced successful research (like winning a Nobel prize) you can use your fame to make money on the lecturing circuit. This also works for failed politicians like Al Gore ;-) That pliantly insane. I think you mean patently insane -) Take care, -- Stefaan

Re: gpl licensing

2006-12-01 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
for a small outfit (meaning you might be the technical, commercial and legal heads rolled in one), you should look at the contract you have, and clarify the issue with your customer. Take care, -- Stefaan A Eeckels -- Sometimes I wonder whether the world is run by smart people who are putting us

Re: gpl licensing

2006-12-05 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
. -- Stefaan A Eeckels -- You don't have to spend the rest of your life exercising yourself to death. -- SPAM can be fun :) ___ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc

Re: gpl licensing

2006-12-05 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
to own one very, very small company :). -- Stefaan A Eeckels -- Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California. --Edsger Dijkstra ___ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http

Re: gpl licensing

2006-12-05 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
should be considered property. Some people do not believe that real estate (or certainly land) should be considered property. Some people consider that companies should not be property. What matters is what is accepted by a majority of people. -- Stefaan A Eeckels -- A ship in the harbor is safe

Re: gpl licensing

2006-12-05 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 22:19:39 + Rui Miguel Silva Seabra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ter, 2006-12-05 às 22:21 +0100, Stefaan A Eeckels escreveu: On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 14:48:46 + Rui Miguel Silva Seabra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A government GRANTED and TEMPORARY MONOPOLY right

Re: gpl licensing

2006-12-05 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
On 5 Dec 2006 22:07:04 GMT [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Tobin) wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Stefaan A Eeckels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, it just means that they have not yet been universally accepted as property. We have no problems considering land (real estate) property

Re: gpl licensing

2006-12-06 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
care, -- Stefaan A Eeckels -- I don't understand that attitude. Don't we want email that has dancing bears, cute little videos, musical tunes, animated waving hands, sixty fonts, and looks like it's been done with crayolas? Good grief, man, think like a three year old! -- Norm Reitzel

Re: gpl licensing

2006-12-06 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
with him isn't very nice, or useful. Me tips hat. Thanks, kind sir. My apologise for the obvious name mistake. Moenie worrie nie, as they say in South Africa. You can't be right all the time, now can you? :-) -- Stefaan A Eeckels -- How's it supposed to get the respect of management

Re: Using a script licensed under GPL in an application licensed under a license that's not compatible with GPL

2006-12-14 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
aggregation in the GPL. -- Stefaan A Eeckels -- You don't have to spend the rest of your life exercising yourself to death. -- SPAM can be fun :) ___ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman

Re: Using a script licensed under GPL in an application licensed under a license that's not compatible with GPL

2006-12-14 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
becomes impossible, because then you cannot write those 10 characters without the permission of the author of /foo/bar. -- Stefaan A Eeckels -- When the need is strong, there are those who will believe anything. -- Arnold Lobel

Re: Using a script licensed under GPL in an application licensed under a license that's not compatible with GPL

2006-12-15 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
quoted 13 lines from it. How then can the source code of a program be a derivative work when it merely references the header file? Or how can (the source code of) a script be a derivative work of another script when it contains the line: . /a/gpled/script -- Stefaan A Eeckels -- Object-oriented

Re: Using a script licensed under GPL in an application licensed under a license that's not compatible with GPL

2006-12-15 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
scripts, whether they call other scripts through script . script or `script` they remain IMHO wholly original works as long as you have not copied code from these scripts. -- Stefaan A Eeckels -- He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave

Re: Using a script licensed under GPL in an application licensed under a license that's not compatible with GPL

2006-12-15 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 16:05:41 +0100 David Kastrup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stefaan A Eeckels [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You don't get it - one cannot write a (useful) 'C' program without a few #include statements (which will cause the preprocessor to import the header files). If that makes

Re: Copyright notices on GPL'ed software

2006-12-15 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
.) You can add your own copyright notice (which then also serves to meet the requirement of clause 2a). Of course you should leave the original copyright notices in place. You don't want to create the impression you wrote the code, do you? -- Stefaan A Eeckels -- Shun those who say we have eyes

Re: Using a script licensed under GPL in an application licensed under a license that's not compatible with GPL

2006-12-16 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
#include type statements. As a person making a living writing source code, I find that a very disturbing thought. Take care, -- Stefaan A Eeckels -- Sometimes I wonder whether the world is run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it. --Mark Twain

Re: Using a script licensed under GPL in an application licensed under a license that's not compatible with GPL

2006-12-16 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
it. There is this thing called fair use that exists. If I understand your argument correctly, you're arguing that copying 13 lines from a file is fair use, whereas writing require file makes the source code a derivative work of file. -- Stefaan A Eeckels -- Governments are like babies: digestive tracts

Re: Strawmen and Urban Legends

2006-12-28 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
not have seen much progress in mathematics if patents would have been granted on Newton-Raphson or FFTs. One of the problems is that a lot of people discoursing on software patents don't know what software is. -- Stefaan A Eeckels -- Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules: The first ninety

Re: Strawmen and Urban Legends

2006-12-28 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
On 28 Dec 2006 06:59:04 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stefaan A Eeckels wrote: Of course, a device that peforms a particular function, like a vocorder, can be patented even if it uses a DSP chip and software. You patent the complete device, not its components. That's a clever

Re: The death of copyright in software

2007-06-01 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
be copyrighted? -- Stefaan A Eeckels -- Life itself is a misery and nobody can tell what can be of it. Those that can tell what can be of it are those who cannot tell us because they are far from us (dead). -- Very profound scam ___ gnu-misc-discuss

Re: The death of copyright in software

2007-06-02 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
because there is only one way in which a compiler can be written and hence you can do with the gcc code as you please. -- Stefaan A Eeckels -- The one thing IT really needs to outsource is the freakin' clueless managers that don't understand that there are more possibilities than chaos

Re: The death of copyright in software

2007-06-03 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 20:04:19 -0500 rjack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stefaan A Eeckels wrote: On Thu, 31 May 2007 20:19:17 -0500 But only an idiot without knowledge about programming can argue that because a program performs the same well-defined function as another program (i.e