Re: Copyright Act preempts the wave theory of light

2004-02-16 Thread Russell Nelson
BSD Protector writes: With all due respect, this mailing list is called: license-discuss. 1. GPL is a license. 2. It is being discussed. 3. It is not a license under consideration for approval by OSI. Therefore ... it is off-topic for this mailing list. -- --My blog is at

Re: For Approval: NASA Open Source Agreement Version 1.1

2004-02-16 Thread Russell Nelson
Alex Rousskov writes: - If NASA wants to kindly ask users to register, license is not the right place to do that. NASA should change the license before OSI approves it (a simple quality control issue) On the other hand, if NASA wants to require redistributors to

Re: For Approval: NASA Open Source Agreement Version 1.1

2004-02-16 Thread Alex Rousskov
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Russell Nelson wrote: Alex Rousskov writes: - If NASA wants to kindly ask users to register, license is not the right place to do that. NASA should change the license before OSI approves it (a simple quality control issue) On the other hand,

Re: The Copyright Act preempts the GPL

2004-02-16 Thread John Cowan
Chloe Hoffman scripsit: You may want to take a look at Stewart v. Abend. http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=USvol=495invol=207 An interesting case, but not really apropos, because the pre-1976 copyright renewal scheme, like the corresponding termination provisions in