"Mike Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Question to the nice folks in g.m.d...
>
> I have a couple of nice patches I would like to contribute to
> the Gentoo project, but I have some doubts. As some people
> probably already know, Gentoo requires that their contributors
> transfer copyright o
David Kastrup wrote:
[...]
> considered a derivative work. If I put instructions about where to
> download a copy to be used against the intent of the license, am I not
> party to the process?
You are a party to GNU utter moronity, dak. Hey ams heads up, dak is
new champion.
regards,
alexand
Mike Cox wrote:
[...]
> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/copyright/index.xml
"GNU...GNU...GNU...To summarize: copyright assignment refers to
the process of legally changing the ownership of intellectual
property".
Hey ueber GNUtian ams, care to educate Gentoonians that
"intellectual prop
Michael Black wrote:
>
... snip ...
>
> Individual distributions may have their own programs (such as the
> installer programs), and they may compile the rest in different ways,
> but generally there isn't much that is different from the rest. And
> if a patch is actually useful to a program, it
Dan Lyons reports:
http://floatingpoint.wordpress.com/2006/10/17/bruce-perens-on-gplv3/
--
While were on the subject of the price of free software (a notion
that may seem paradoxical to some), a while back I had a chance to speak
with Bruce Perens, a well-known free software advocate, ab
Alexander Terekhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Dan Lyons reports:
>
> http://floatingpoint.wordpress.com/2006/10/17/bruce-perens-on-gplv3/
>
> --
> While we’re on the subject of the “price” of “free” software (a notion
> that may seem paradoxical to some), a while back I had a chance to spea
aka Hurd (Hird stands for "Hurd of Interfaces Representing Depth") coined
by Thomas Bushnell, BSG, the primary architect of the Hurd
http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd.html (he was dismissed by RMS
because he has publicly spoken against the GNU Free Documentation
License http://lists.debian.o
Hey dak, both fellows have really good appetite (they should really try
to eat a bit less). And speaking of Eben,
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1139911511108
(Meet the DotCommunist)
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Moglen puts it more simply: "I know how to hook up people who have
money with the people who have p
Michael writes:
> If the bug is with a program, the patch should go to the program's
> developer. If they are applying the patch to 3rd party programs, then
> it's basically a fork, a new version of an existing program.
When I receive a bug report on one of my packages with a patch that I think
s
Alexander Terekhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hey dak, both fellows have really good appetite (they should really try
> to eat a bit less).
RMS is not exactly known for a luxurious life style.
> And speaking of Eben,
>
> http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1139911511108
> (Meet the DotComm
David Kastrup wrote:
[...]
> Uh, why should he? The law is his profession. Since when should a
> person not get paid for doing his job?
Are you getting paid for doing your GNU job? Your comrade ams seems to
be on public support.
http://www.update.uu.se/~ams/home/resume
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Work Status: un
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Michael writes:
>
>> And if a patch is actually useful to a program, it should be folded
>> into the actual program itself.
>
> Yes, but let the distribution forward it.
If the distribution claims copyright on the patch, this can prevent it
from being fol
Alexander Terekhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> David Kastrup wrote:
> [...]
>> Uh, why should he? The law is his profession. Since when should a
>> person not get paid for doing his job?
>
> Are you getting paid for doing your GNU job?
I am not getting paid for the voluntary work I do within
You should file your bug report with your distribution and let them
forward it. They will know whether the bug is truly in the
upstream release or in something they have added and will be able
to provide more information and testing and consolidate multiple
reports of the same bug.
(4) In other places they claim they're doing this because GNU,
Debian, and the BSDs are requiring copyright transfer as well
[1]. Well I know that some GNU projects recommend it (emacs,
libstdc++), but by far not all; and I have heard first hand that
Debian not only does not require
David Kastrup wrote:
[...]
> I am not getting paid for the voluntary work I do within the GNU
> project, which is neither my job nor part of my job description. The
And what is your "job description"? I'm just curious: once and for all,
are you employed or not, dak? Or may be you're a lucky dot-
Alexander Terekhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> David Kastrup wrote:
> [...]
>> I am not getting paid for the voluntary work I do within the GNU
>> project, which is neither my job nor part of my job description. The
>
> And what is your "job description"? I'm just curious: once and for
> all, a
"Alfred M. Szmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>(4) In other places they claim they're doing this because GNU,
>Debian, and the BSDs are requiring copyright transfer as well
>[1]. Well I know that some GNU projects recommend it (emacs,
>libstdc++), but by far not all; and I have he
On 2006-10-18, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Michael writes:
>> If the bug is with a program, the patch should go to the program's
>> developer. If they are applying the patch to 3rd party programs, then
>> it's basically a fork, a new version of an existing program.
>
> When I receive
[...] However, when I filed a bug report against Mandriva, I was
told _I_ should file a report against upstream and then wait until
the upstream developer released the fix and the fix was put into
the next Mandriva release. The Mandriva person didn't want to get
involved.
That is e
Robert Riches writes:
> John, what distribution are you involved with as a maintainer or
> developer?
Debian (where "maintainer" and "developer" mean the same thing).
> However, when I filed a bug report against Mandriva, I was told _I_
> should file a report against upstream and then wait until
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Robert Riches writes:
>> John, what distribution are you involved with as a maintainer or
>> developer?
>
> Debian (where "maintainer" and "developer" mean the same thing).
>
>> However, when I filed a bug report against Mandriva, I was told _I_
>> should
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Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 10:42:01 -0400
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