> Lynn Fredricks wrote: > > "I think we are agreed that the Patent system is on the Road > to Nowhere :-)"
I was refering to a title of a Talking Heads song :-) > Um: > > 1. Copyright? > > 2. Open Source? > > 3. Co-existence between several models. > > And, in the case of software, where does a patent end and > copyright start? The differences between what should be patented, copyrighted or trademarked is reasonably well documented, though often creatively applied. > Consider a small problem: > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > A while ago I wrote a message to one of the high-ups at > Ubuntu offering to let them have FREE linux versions of a > couple of programs I made about > 6 years ago about Phonetics using RR. > > They were refused on the grounds that, while I was entitled > to distribute standalones free, they were built using > proprietary software. > > Personally I thought they were being a bit silly. Ubuntu or Canonical? It could be that it could come down to only bundling stuff that is under a particular license. Richard Gaskin's comments: > To some purists, even Rev projects released under the LGPL > will never been perceived as "true" open source projects > because they require a proprietary engine to run. This of > course overlooks that even if the Rev engine were open source > it would still require the larger "proprietary engine": the OS itself. The is the "love the idea, hate the church" problem I find so frustrating with the open source world. Best regards, Lynn Fredricks President Paradigma Software http://www.paradigmasoft.com Valentina SQL Server: The Ultra-fast, Royalty Free Database Server _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
