[top-posting by way of preamble, apologies to others receiving this:
thufir is someone whom i have interacted with in the past without
achieving successful rational communication, on the gpl-violations
mailing list]
ah, thufir, after a long time, you initiate a discussion (directly to
me) for
On 2015-03-06 07:14 PM, thufir wrote:
i assume also, thufir, that you have read, understood, and agree that
if 77 highly intelligent and prominent computer scientists - many of
them having NOTHING TO DO WITH THE GPL - go to the extraordinary
lengths of submitting an amicus brief against the
On 2015-03-04 07:16 AM, Reincke, Karsten wrote:
Now, I am indeed sure that all important open source licenses
including the LGPL-v2 allow reverse engineering only in case of
distributing statically linked programs. Moreover: I am definitely
sure, that none of these open source licenses
On 2015-03-06 05:30 PM, lkcl . wrote:
i assume also, thufir, that you have read, understood, and agree that
if 77 highly intelligent and prominent computer scientists - many of
them having NOTHING TO DO WITH THE GPL - go to the extraordinary
lengths of submitting an amicus brief against the
On 2015-03-06 05:30 PM, lkcl . wrote:
So, that's the point. You might write what you like about the GPL and
reverse engineering, but the foundation behind the GPL has opened the door
on this.
no it has not. from previous experience, you have a habit of being
unable to discern between
I don't get it, the pdf is at odds with Dr. Stallman and the FSF, if not
in specifics, at least in results and effects. The FSF, to the extent I
was able to get an official position from it, is all in favor of taking
GPL'ed API's, copying the declaring code, re-writing the implementation,
and
On 2015-03-06 03:30 PM, thufir wrote:
For example, my capable colleague Helene Tamer constantly insisted, that
Deutsche Telekom AG could not give up her restrictions to use LGPL
libraries until
I had offered a reliable proof that the LGPL does not require reverse
engineering.
Admittedly, I
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