Anthony Towns writes:
> This detailed wrangling is really missing the point that I'm interested
> in, though. Is there a _fundamental_ difficulty with such licenses?
Is it users of programs or owners of copies of programs that should
have freedom? As far as I can see the answer is clearly users
Jeremy Hankins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is it users of programs or owners of copies of programs that should
> have freedom? As far as I can see the answer is clearly users.
> Currently those two groups are roughly the same, and the second group
> is *much* easier to draw a line around. So w
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 12:25:02PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
[ more good argument snipped]
> Even if there were *no* legal limitations of any kind on the copying
> and modification of any software, there would *still* be no way to
> give that liberty to users, since (when user and posses
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 02:27:44PM -0500, Jeremy Hankins wrote:
> Anthony Towns writes:
> > Basically, as far as I can see, the dissident test is exactly equivalent
> > to saying "we don't want to close this ASP loophole thing".
> I don't think this is true, if you accept the substitution of users
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 06:41:40PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 02:27:44PM -0500, Jeremy Hankins wrote:
> > Anthony Towns writes:
> > > Basically, as far as I can see, the dissident test is exactly equivalent
> > > to saying "we don't want to close this ASP loophole thing"
On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 11:58, Steve Langasek wrote:
> I find this an acceptable compromise. The GPL already implements
> something very close to this: if you give someone a copy, they're able
> to pass it on to a third party who in some cases then has grounds for
> demanding source from the autho
On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 14:51, Stephen Ryan wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 11:58, Steve Langasek wrote:
>
> > I find this an acceptable compromise. The GPL already implements
> > something very close to this: if you give someone a copy, they're able
> > to pass it on to a third party who in some c
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