Am I getting year old mail ?? We *have* jeps that cover this stuff. JOBS, JID streams... head on over to http://www.jabber.org
There is nothing illegal or unethical about me creating a document and distributing it to people; file transfer. The RIAA argument is mute, plain and simple. On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 18:47, Richard Dobson wrote: > > On Wednesday, October 23, 2002, at 02:39 pm, Mattias Campe wrote: > > > Richard Dobson wrote: > > [...] > > > This is something that needs to go past the lawyers > >> first so that they can at least supply some legalese to put on the > >> JEP page > >> to indemnify the JSF from any legal repercussions (hopefully passing > >> the > >> legal burden onto the end user where it should be). > > > > A disavantage of this can be that users want file sharing and they > > can't wait for all that lawyers stuff. Most of the client developers > > want their client to be the most used on the whole planet (I think > > this is a very normal way of thinking :) ). > > > Now, if you take the two together, maybe a lot of client developers > > will start to build their own, incompatible, (proprietary?) solutions > > for file sharing. "Incompatible", because there is no support from the > > JSF... > > That maybe so that impatient people will just go and create their own > anyway, but the legal problems still remain and if the JSF creates and > promotes a protocol designed for people setup a file sharing system it > could bring the JSF into the firing line, IMO it is a VERY bad idea to > rush into a potentially very dangerous territory for the JSF just > because people want something now and cant wait a little while to sort > this stuff out and in doing so protect the JSF. I have seen this > argument quite a lot that people will end up building their own > incompatible solution if we dont do it right now, I dont believe that > for one second, there might be the odd one but they will be in the > minority, I could understand that if I was saying that the JSF should > not do it at all, but im not im saying that we should wait a little > while for the lawyers or whatever to make sure the JSF is protected > against any kind of comeback standardizing this feature could cause. > > Richard > > > _______________________________________________ > jdev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
