> In this sense, SW patents will not kill FOSS, but they will give large
> companies much more leaway in determining its future, substantially
> hollowing out the 'freedom' in free software.
Or, in a highly unlikely scenario it can go the other way. If IBM holds on to
its pledge [1] not to use pa
> If you used a proprietary program [whether non-FOSS
> "freeware" or commercial] whose authors hadn't licensed LZW from Unisys,
> you - and not the authors - got sued, too. The proprietary license did
> _not_, as you wrote in your initial posting, save you, the user, from
> legal risks, i.e. it d
I decided to write a thing or two about what is happening (or is bound to
happen) in Macedonia in a period of 30 or so days, and I believe that this
topics could be interesting for nettime readers. So here we go.
On 24th of May 2004, local radio station Kanal 103 disappeared from the air
after
> Let's face it, when has a company that violated the GPL been properly
> punished?
They haven't been punished because they have admitted their mistake and
released the code which some might say is more valuable than money to the
free software community. This has happened with every company tha
ed phillips wrote:
> In fact, however, their licensing literature *is* incorrect on the
> small point of inter-organizational redistribution of MySQL and
> modifications to it or programs that use it.
I think that they are saying that internal redistribution of the original
MySQL version, the o
ed phillips wrote:
> In fact, however, their licensing literature *is* incorrect on the
> small point of inter-organizational redistribution of MySQL and
> modifications to it or programs that use it.
I think that they are saying that internal redistribution of the original
MySQL version, the o
ed phillips wrote:
> Novika,
Missed me by a letter. :)
> You hinted that you are familiar with MySQL?
I was talking about MySQL AB's lawsuit against NuSphere in 2002, for which
they received help from FSF.
> I'm curious. They seem in their licensing literature (
> http://www.mysql.com/produc
> I understand from the FSF in the US that they deal with enforcement and
> compliance of the GPL. But do they (and I presume with the support of
> Prof Moglen) only do it within the US. That is within their jurisdiction?
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-assign.html says:
Under US copyright law...
> More interestingly, it signed
> that agreement as a Republic of Macedonia, NOT under its
> officially recognized name of the Former Yugoslav Republic of
> Macedonia.
Actually, as the local media stated, the agreement is not signed under the
constitutional name - "Republic of Macedonia", but u
