hi guys,
Just wondering if there has been any gpl test in the indian courts or if
anyone has been brought up in the courts for gpl violation.
- KB
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See
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/on-ethics-and-bluewhite64-is-it-a-parasite-708535/
for a long discussion.
Basically bluewhite64 seems to be a case of violating GPL with 'sed'
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On Sunday 09 Nov 2008, Mani A wrote:
Diebold has a long tradition of manufacturing poorly specified,
horrible voting machines for the make-believe elections in US at
least.
OT - In other countries the elections are believable?
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Arun Khan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday 09 Nov 2008, Mani A wrote:
Diebold has a long tradition of manufacturing poorly specified,
horrible voting machines for the make-believe elections in US at
least.
OT - In other countries the elections are believable?
No not really in general.
Diebold has a long tradition of manufacturing poorly specified,
horrible voting machines for the make-believe elections in US at
least.
They violate the GPL too it seems
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2554621839.html?kc=rss
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On Tue, 08 May 2007 09:26:57 +0530, Sandip Bhattacharya said:
So, my objection is to the throttling of the supply side, by keeping
the enhancements from the community. With the GPL, if the demand goes
high enough, others can come in to supply to same service, or people
can help themselves --
Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Is there any other way that the BSD is better for developers
than the GPL is?
Yes, it allows your software to be linked -or- bundled along with
software licensed under the so-called GPL-incompatible licenses;
something that isn't possible in the GPL (the LGPL
On Mon, 07 May 2007 11:32:36 +0530, Sandip Bhattacharya said:
Manoj Srivastava wrote:
I am not sure I am convinced by these statements. As a developer, I
fail to see how the GPL helps me any less than the BSD style licenses
do -- unless you assume that all developers want to squirrel code
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On Monday 07 May 2007 11:31, Anant Narayanan wrote:
Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Is there any other way that the BSD is better for
developers than the GPL is?
Yes, it allows your software to be linked -or- bundled along with
The GPL allows
This is an important point, and I'd like to clear this misconception
about the GPL:
On Monday 07 May 2007 12:37, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
[snip]
The original statement did not make this distinction. Had
you said that the authors not being helped by the GPL are closed
source folks, I
On Mon, 7 May 2007 13:45:28 +0530, Raj Mathur said:
This is an important point, and I'd like to clear this misconception
about the GPL:
On Monday 07 May 2007 12:37, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
[snip] The original statement did not make this distinction. Had you
said that the authors not being
So, my objection is to the throttling of the supply side, by keeping
the enhancements from the community. With the GPL, if the demand
goes high enough, others can come in to supply to same service, or
people can help themselves -- since the supply of the enhancement
code
While I respect the intention of GPL, I dislike BSD license being
criticized unfairly.
PJ wrote:
The GPL compatible licences are designed to preserve freedom for the users.
The BSD style licences have helped Microsoft take away freedom from the users.
You are using two different kind of
Sandip Bhattacharya [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
While I respect the intention of GPL, I dislike BSD license being
criticized unfairly.
PJ wrote:
The GPL compatible licences are designed to preserve freedom for the users.
The BSD style licences have helped Microsoft take away freedom from
On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 16:29, Jasmeet S. Virdi wrote:
Some more doubts :)
$ You are only obliged to reveal the source to
$ the people you give the binaries of your program to -- not
$ the original author, not any `community'. However, you have
$ to distribute the source under the GPL
Hi,
I am not pretty sure I've understood the GPL license, Could some one
clarify some of my doubts :
1. If I create a new software which which is based (has the same code
base with some additions) on a GPL'ed software ( with open source) as a
part of it, so do I need to make my software too
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Jasmeet == Jasmeet S Virdi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jasmeet Hi, I am not pretty sure I've understood the GPL license,
Jasmeet Could some one clarify some of my doubts : 1. If I create
Jasmeet a new software which which is based (has the
Some more doubts :)
$ You are only obliged to reveal the source to
$ the people you give the binaries of your program to -- not
$ the original author, not any `community'. However, you have
$ to distribute the source under the GPL itself, so the
$ recipients are free to disseminate your source
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Jasmeet == Jasmeet S Virdi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jasmeet Some more doubts :)
Jasmeet 1. Does it talk anywhere about making the binaries/source
Jasmeet code available for FREE ? Can I sell the rework ?
Jasmeet (assuming I used
On Wednesday 20 August 2003 01:53 pm, you wrote:
Re point 3, I doubt if anyone would sue you for `look-and-feel' if you
made, e.g., a clone of Konqueror :)
oh! ho!, depends on 1) which jurisdiction 2) how smart your lawyer is for
this one 3) if specific icons and graphic elements, drawn in
On Wednesday 20 August 2003 04:29 pm, you wrote:
1. Does it talk anywhere about making the binaries/source code available
for FREE ? Can I sell the rework ? (assuming I used GPL'ed code).
yes for both! anybody anywhere anytime can get the sourcode free-of-cost, as
well as the object code.
Damn clear, thanx :)
-js
$ Yes you can. However, once you have sold the package (and
$ the source, of course) to one person, s/he can further resell
$ it, give it away, or do whatever s/he pleases with it, so
$ it's slightly difficult to make more than one sale of a GPL package.
$
$
$ It
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