On Wed, Feb 21 2001, at 22:11:52 -0800, David Johnson wrote:
Since I can't locate the archives anywhere, could someone either point me to
them or offer a recap of a prior discussion?
I have been looking for the archive myself, and asked for it on this
mailing list, but no one responded. I set
On Thu, Feb 22 2001, at 07:39:28 -0500, Randy Kramer wrote:
I've saved almost all of the list since I subscribed, and would be
willing to send copies to someone somehow to add to an archive.
Thanks, I'm interested.
A few things:
1. I don't immediately know when I subscribed -- I have
Bjorn,
A few more things before I send the files:
Netscape folders are normal mbox files, aren't they?
Yes, AFAIK, except:
1. There is an associated index file (.snm) which you can just ignore.
2. I collected these on Windows, so I suspect they will have a crlf
where Linux expects just a
Here is a link to an archive for this list.
http://www.crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3:iis:1:28#b
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From: David Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 10:12 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Assigning copyright
Since I can't locate
David Johnson wrote:
I now have in my possession a contributed piece of code with an emailed
agreement to assign the copyright to me (since there is no umbrella
organization to assign it to). The pragmatic part of me says that this is the
legally sensible thing to do,
It was.
If the
Once again, I need to suggest that it is not appropriate to ask for (or
give) specific legal advice on an OSI public discussion list. No attorney
worth the paper on which his license is printed will give a specific answer
to a specific question in such a forum. And any answer you get from
Here's a question I thought I'd never have to ask.
What is a Copyleft?
The reason I ask this question relates to RMS's recent pronouncements about
Apple's psuedo-open license terms. He says, in part, that one of the flaws
of the license is that:
"It is not a true copyleft, because it allows
There was an earlier posting asking about how copyrights are transferred.
The issue of copyright transfer is a very important one for open source
projects, but one that is often ignored. One important consideration is
that only the legal or beneficial owner of an exclusive right under a
It would be delightful if people could post sample documents for
the transfer of copyright.
Someone asked something about transfer of copyright to for-profit
companies. The idea is that some authors may be wary of transferring
their rights to a for-profit company, even though the software has
Jimmy Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It would be delightful if people could post sample documents for
the transfer of copyright.
Someone asked something about transfer of copyright to for-profit
companies. The idea is that some authors may be wary of transferring
their rights to a for-profit
begin Ryan S. Dancey quotation:
Here's a question I thought I'd never have to ask.
What is a Copyleft?
Your underlying point is well-taken, and perceptive: RMS's recent usage
of the term indeed appears to depart from its prior (and customary)
meaning, in objecting to the ability to link to
Correct. Your quote from RMS didn't indicate whether he was referring to
static or dynamic linking, but since your example uses dynamic linking, I
assume that is what RMS meant as well. I do not read the copyleft in the
GNU GPL to preclude runtime linking to DLLs. Indeed, to read the copyleft
in
"Ryan S. Dancey" wrote:
Here's a question I thought I'd never have to ask.
What is a Copyleft?
The reason I ask this question relates to RMS's recent pronouncements about
Apple's psuedo-open license terms. He says, in part, that one of the flaws
of the license is that:
"It is not a
From: Ryan S. Dancey [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
If I write a copyleft free program for Windows, I should be able to load
and
link at runtime to any DLL in the system, regardless of whether or not
that
DLL is free code or not, shouldn't I? How else could a Windows program
ever
On Thursday 22 February 2001 09:58 am, Lawrence E. Rosen wrote:
There was an earlier posting asking about how copyrights are transferred.
The issue of copyright transfer is a very important one for open source
projects, but one that is often ignored. One important consideration is
that only
On Thursday 22 February 2001 07:05 am, Brice, Richard wrote:
Here is a link to an archive for this list.
http://www.crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3:iis:1:28#b
Thanks for the link. It took a bit of searching, but I found the thread back
in April.
--
David Johnson
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On Thursday 22 February 2001 02:16 pm, John Cowan wrote:
No, DLLs are in the same address space as the main program. They are
ordinary code that instead of being mapped at link time, is mapped at
the beginning of run time. Calls to a routine in a DLL are essentially
ordinary subroutine
Inadvertantly sent just to Mr. Dixon - my apologies to him for the double
post.
From: "Rod Dixon, J.D., LL.M." [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[ I said, in reference to various library linking examples:]
How can that create a derivative work?
Well, the question is why wouldn't it?
Because you're not
On Thursday 22 February 2001 10:37 pm, Ryan S. Dancey wrote:
I'm suggesting that the definition of a derivative work can't include data
being passed between two independent pieces of code, via file, via a
network, or via an internal process communication. Making a function call
is not the
"Ryan S. Dancey" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
When you make a function call in compile-time linked code, you are
creating a derivative work, because the function code itself will be
compiled into the Program and inextricably combined with your code.
When the two are separated by a run-time
From: "David Johnson" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Making a function call
is not the same thing as actually incorporating the code of that
function
into the body of the calling code.
Though I'm on your "side", there is a big difference between data transfer
and code execution. Transferring data
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