Re: More fun with Title 17 USC

2003-05-29 Thread joemoore
Anthony DeRobertis said: > (Sec. 201(a)): > Copyright in a work protected under this title vests initially > in the author or authors of the work. The authors of a joint > work are coowners of copyright in the work. > > So, I wonder, how many open-source works qualify as joint wo

Re: The debate on Invariant sections (long)

2003-05-27 Thread joemoore
Richard Braakman said: > On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 05:57:20AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> In order to do this, I must maintain the invariant sections. >> These invariant sections (written in English) are unreadable to the >> Elbonians. >> I could also translate the invariant section to Elbonia

Re: The debate on Invariant sections (long)

2003-05-27 Thread joemoore
David B Harris said: > On Sat, 24 May 2003 19:19:50 -0400 > Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> A political essay is (typically) written by certain persons to >> persuade the public of a certain position. If it is modified, it does >> not do its job. So it makes sense, socially, to say

Re: PHP-Nuke License Conclusion?

2003-05-22 Thread joemoore
Don Armstrong said: > On Thu, 22 May 2003, Nick Phillips wrote: >> I would assert, though, that it is possible to phrase one's >> construction such that it is not reasonable to argue about it. > > Sure. I think most of us would agree that an unequivocally proper > phrasing of such a construction is

Re: [OT] Droit d'auteur vs. free software?

2003-05-19 Thread joemoore
Henning Makholm said: > Scripsit Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> RMS could use his 'moral rights' to prevent someone from >> distributing a version of Emacs which could read and write Microsoft >> Word files (file format being reverse-engineered). > > No he can't. His placing Emacs under a