only when there is no
alternative.
Would people want it?
Some might.
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Will L writes:
For exmaple, suppose a user just wants to ask a question, is it
reasonable to require him to subscribe, receive unrelated emails, then
unsubscribe?
Subscription is not required.
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libel?
...what's stopping us from officially discouraging Ubuntu's existence?
The fact that most of us are interested in cooperation or at least peaceful
coexistence.
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Hamish writes:
...special requirements with regard to attribution.
The only _requirements_ we can have with respect to attribution are fully
satsified by compliance with copyright law and the terms of the relevant
licenses. Anything else is a request.
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have hired the job done for
a few cents a copy. Note that you only get to charge for the cost of
physically performing source distribution. You do not get to charge for
the cost of preparing the source for distribution.
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They need to be asked to change their FAQ to remove more trademark
infringements.
Careful. While I agree that all the changes you suggest are desireable, I
think that most are nominative and so do not infringe the
trademark.
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Henning Makholm writes:
A bicycle trip to my local courthouse: DKK 2, including write-offs on the
bicycle. A trip to some court in America: Tens of thousands of DKKs.
If I were to sue you for infringing the copyright on my GPL software I
would file in US district court.
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, do nothing regardless of the presence or absence of a choice of
venue clause in my license: suing him in the US would be a complete waste
of time and I have no money for international ventures.
...Or get him extradited somehow.
Extradition has nothing to do with civil lawsuits.
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Peter Vandenabeele writes:
... or just stick to the original DCC as Debian Commercial Consortium.
Excellent suggestion.
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Andrew Suffield writes:
It seems to be working.
No it isn't. It's making things worse.
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for others to rationalize there own
appalling behavior.
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Eldon Koyle writes:
I'll agree that the pledge to killfile you doesn't seem like the best
solution...
This is the first I've heard of it. Not only is it not the best solution,
it's appalling. Andrew has been in my killfile for years, but he's coming
out now.
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Petter Reinholdtsen writes:
As far as I know, quoting is covered within the fair use rights, and do
not have to be covered by the license to be allowed.
Sometimes it is and sometimes it isn't. It depends on the amount quoted
and the use to which the quotation is put.
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will become undistributable in that jurisdiction.
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For nearly everyone else software is free if you don't have to pay for it.
Should we then package everything that won't get us sued?
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would never
attempt to reuse portions of a GFDL document even if I found the terms
acceptible because I don't think I could be sure I was complying with the
license.
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Nothing I've written in this thread is private.
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The survey seems to be broken. I get a Record not found message. The
Webmaster link does nothing.
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Florian Weimer writes:
This is not a sufficient justification because debian-admin c include
non-US citizens.
I think that they can be trusted not to export it, intentionally or
otherwise.
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there could be a violation if a non-US admin looks over a
source package one day and sends a copy off to /dev/null at the Commerce
Dept the next.
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, and provided
that the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of
a permission notice identical to this one.
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SPI *is* a business...
SPI is a corporation. That does not make it a business (just attend a few
board meettings...)
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Stephen Frost writes:
The fact that Debian doesn't 'exist'...
Organizations do not need to be incorporated to have legal existence.
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right now. I'm sure many DDs would be willing to
take money for fixing bugs. Paying SPI for work done for free by the DDs
would be an entirely different thing, however.
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MJ Ray writes:
Meanwhile, all developers on SPI projects are sitting on the beach
drinking cocktails...
Can't I just stay inside and fix bugs? I hate cocktails, and it's -10C on
the nearest beach.
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.
However, I don't think Debian should ever disburse money to developers for
doing Debian software work.
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contemplated having enough money
to even consider doing that. Besides, paying developers from Debian funds
could be very divisive.
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that they are not the brightest stars in the cluster.
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spammer. We'd like to help you but we can't. The people who are
harrassing you are not connected with Debian in any way.
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are quite wrong. In all Berne Convention countries (which,
unfortunately, includes the US) the author of a work automatically acquires
copyright in a work the instant it is fixed into tangible form and no
notice is required.
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of the Secretariat. This resolution has nothing to do
with us.
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, or even with software at all?
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Glenn Maynard writes:
I don't believe that enforcing software patents is a legitimate legal
right that needs to be protected.
What about hardware patents?
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or software.
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Here is an interesting paper on trademark misuse:
http://www.cla.org/trademark%20misuse.pdf
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on the
licensed software.
Attempting to use a copyright license to extend trademark rights beyond the
statutory ones may be copyright misuse. That could lead to the abuser
losing his copyright, his trademark, or both.
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