William Patry Copyright Blog

2008-08-03 Thread rjack
Note: Professor William Patry published *Patry on Copyright* - a seven-volume treatise on copyright law. William Patry Copyright blog (8/3/2008): http://williampatry.blogspot.com/ [begin quote] I have decided to end the blog, after doing around 800 postings over about 4 years. I regret

Re: softwarecombinations paper again Re: LGPL vs. GPL

2008-08-03 Thread Ciaran O'Riordan
Tim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [Well, I skimmed it, but it was quickly obvious that a skim is all it deserved.] Can you give any specific criticism? The meritlessness of that paper, at least insofar as it could create problems for GPL enforcers, has been proven by the zero reaction of

Re: William Patry Copyright Blog

2008-08-03 Thread rjack
AES wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], rjack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. The Current State of Copyright Law is too depressing... Copyright law has abandoned its reason for being: to encourage learning and the creation of new works. Instead, its principal functions now are to preserve

Re: softwarecombinations paper again Re: LGPL vs. GPL

2008-08-03 Thread Tim Smith
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ciaran O'Riordan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [Well, I skimmed it, but it was quickly obvious that a skim is all it deserved.] Can you give any specific criticism? The meritlessness of that paper, at least insofar as it

Re: William Patry Copyright Blog

2008-08-03 Thread AES
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], rjack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. The Current State of Copyright Law is too depressing... Copyright law has abandoned its reason for being: to encourage learning and the creation of new works. Instead, its principal functions now are to preserve existing