On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 10:17 AM, Charlie Brady
charlieb-contribs-discuss...@budge.apana.org.au wrote:
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 5:35 AM, Gordon Rowell gord...@gormand.com.au
wrote:
Has anyone actually owned the community version of e-smith/SME? When
Mitel bought e-smith, I bet they were
On Wed, 23 Oct 2013, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 10:17 AM, Charlie Brady
charlieb-contribs-discuss...@budge.apana.org.au wrote:
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 5:35 AM, Gordon Rowell gord...@gormand.com.au
wrote:
Has anyone actually owned the community version of
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 11:03 AM, Charlie Brady
charlieb-contribs-discuss...@budge.apana.org.au wrote:
Technically true, but in practice it means that non-owners have the
same rights as owners except in rare circumstances. So it makes
ownership meaningless.
Thats just pure BS, Les. Owners
On Wed, 23 Oct 2013, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 11:03 AM, Charlie Brady
charlieb-contribs-discuss...@budge.apana.org.au wrote:
Technically true, but in practice it means that non-owners have the
same rights as owners except in rare circumstances. So it makes
ownership
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Charlie Brady
charlieb-contribs-discuss...@budge.apana.org.au wrote:
What is the owner of one component of a GPL'd work (where there are
other components and owners involved) permitted to do that a non-owner
could not?
I don't know what you mean by where
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.comwrote:
Sure, but the ownership is only of historic interest when anyone has
the right to fork code and redistribute. And even the owners could
not do anything different unless they can all be identified and reach
an
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Greg Zartman g...@leiengineering.com wrote:
I'm pretty sure what Charlie is saying is that the copyright holder of the
GPL work can build proprietary works off the GPLed work and distribute it
without providing the source code. This seems to make sense to me.
On 23/10/13 20:39, Les Mikesell wrote:
Lots .. :-)
All interesting stuff but complete OT.
All I wanted was some factual history. Can anyone please add to the
original question or I'll make sure I won't let truth get in the way of
a good story and make it up myself ;-)
B. Rgds
John
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