Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software

2005-03-13 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
You wanna write an app for our OS? Ask our permission first. Thank you. If you license your code under a Free Software license, then you recived that permission[0]. The FSF doesn't care for people who wish to restrict users of their freedom; it has the opposite goal, to protect those freedo

Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software

2005-03-13 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
You are obviously not interested in having discussions with anyone, and on purpose try to misunderstand people so that you can continue agenda of spreading lies. ___ Gnu-misc-discuss mailing list Gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/lis

Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software

2005-03-13 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 18:59:23 +0100 David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stefaan A Eeckels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Tell me to respect the wishes of the author, and I'm all with you, > > even if these wishes seem - at first sight - rather outlandish. But > > this lunatic fight to g

Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software

2005-03-13 Thread Alexander Terekhov
"Alfred M. Szmidt" wrote: > >>I don't recall receiving any private messages from you. You're >>a victim of my spam filtering, I'm afraid. >> >> That is hard to belive, since you answered one message and >> ignored the other. > >I answered your public message on us

Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software

2005-03-13 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
>I don't recall receiving any private messages from you. You're >a victim of my spam filtering, I'm afraid. > > That is hard to belive, since you answered one message and > ignored the other. I answered your public message on usenet (group gnu.misc.discuss; see the he

Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software

2005-03-13 Thread Alexander Terekhov
David Kastrup wrote: [...] > People that are clamoring against the consequences of the GPL are > clamoring against the consequences of copyright laws. For the record, I'm against consequences of the "GNU copyright laws" which is nothing but perverse parody having little to no connection with r

Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software

2005-03-13 Thread David Kastrup
Stefaan A Eeckels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tell me to respect the wishes of the author, and I'm all with you, > even if these wishes seem - at first sight - rather outlandish. But > this lunatic fight to get the scope of copyright extended, by > exactly those people who originally wanted to

Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software

2005-03-13 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 16:16:42 +0100 David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stefaan A Eeckels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 14:31:15 +0100 > > David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Stefaan A Eeckels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >> > A book that refers

Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software

2005-03-13 Thread David Kastrup
Stefaan A Eeckels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 14:31:15 +0100 > David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Stefaan A Eeckels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > A book that refers the user to a dictionary for >> > the definition of a number of words is not a derivative >>

Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software

2005-03-13 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 14:31:15 +0100 David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stefaan A Eeckels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > A book that refers the user to a dictionary for > > the definition of a number of words is not a derivative > > work of that dictionary. > > So why are there numerous

Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software

2005-03-13 Thread Alexander Terekhov
David Kastrup wrote: [...] > So why are there numerous court decisions that "deep linking" of web > site material constitutes copyright infringement? Deep Linking: Legal Certainty in Germany While Debate Continues in the United States September 11, 2003 With a recent decision, the Ger

Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software

2005-03-13 Thread David Kastrup
Stefaan A Eeckels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 10:37:43 +0100 > Martin Dickopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I find it unconvincing to argue that a program is not a derivative work >> of a dynamic library just because this case is not properly covered by a >> non-limitative

Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software

2005-03-13 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 10:37:43 +0100 Martin Dickopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I find it unconvincing to argue that a program is not a derivative work > of a dynamic library just because this case is not properly covered by a > non-limitative list of illustrations. The enumeration illustrates the

Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software

2005-03-13 Thread Alexander Terekhov
"Alfred M. Szmidt" wrote: > >I don't recall receiving any private messages from you. You're a >victim of my spam filtering, I'm afraid. > > That is hard to belive, since you answered one message and ignored the > other. I answered your public message on usenet (group gnu.misc.discuss;

Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software

2005-03-13 Thread Martin Dickopp
Stefaan A Eeckels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It is also quite clear to anyone reading the American (USA) copyright > statutes that requiring a library, or anything, to run is _not_ a > criterion for a derivative work. It is not clear to me at all. > I further believe that pretending this is t

Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software

2005-03-13 Thread Martin Dickopp
Stefaan A Eeckels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here's the definition of a derivative work, taken > (without permission, but fair use (still) applies :-) from > 101 USC 17: > > | A "derivative work" is a work based upon one or more preexisting > | works, such as a translation, musical arrangement,