Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record

2008-09-19 Thread Alexander Terekhov
(Update.) Alexander Terekhov wrote: [...] 1. Voluntary Dismissal Without Prejudice. 2. Voluntary Dismissal Without Prejudice. 3. Voluntary Dismissal Without Prejudice. 4. Voluntary Dismissal With Prejudice. 5. Voluntary Dismissal Without Prejudice. 6. DEFAULT JUDGMENT (defendants must send

Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record

2008-09-19 Thread Alexander Terekhov
(Update.) Yet another delay... Alexander Terekhov wrote: Alexander Terekhov wrote: Mailed notice to Register of Copyrights to report the filing of this action. (rdz) (Entered: 07/21/2008) WOW! Am I blind or is the court's clerk got concerned regarding (missing) Registration of

Re: Funding

2008-09-19 Thread Pete Chown
webmaster wrote: We are in search of someone to help fund for these engines since we are all self funded and cant seem to afford it. Do you need these specific game engines? There are lots of free alternatives. The one used by Disney for Toontown and Pirates of the Caribbean Online is

Re: Copyright vs Open Source

2008-09-19 Thread Miles Bader
Mike Jervis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: However, I'm a little disconcerted to see that they have batch processed all source code and claimed copyright to all files, with a note that it's based on work from the original project which was copyright by {list of original authors}. My gut feeling

Re: Freedom. . . the GPL benefit

2008-09-19 Thread Miles Bader
Gary Nym? -Miles -- Freebooter, n. A conqueror in a small way of business, whose annexations lack of the sanctifying merit of magnitude. ___ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss

Re: GPL 2(b) HUH?

2008-09-19 Thread Hyman Rosen
Rahul Dhesi wrote: I think you missed the part where HyProg users were copying libGNU as the HyProg author's agents. It's not illegal to copy libGNU as authorized by the GPL. If I wanted to, I could ship, perhaps on separate media, a copy of libGNU and its sources along with HyProg.

Re: GPL 2(b) HUH?

2008-09-19 Thread Hyman Rosen
Barry Margolin wrote: It's not the scheduler that's a derivative, it's the new Linux kernel that results from replacing the scheduler in the old kernel. I.e. Linux - schedulerA + schedulerB = derivative of Linux. But the new scheduler itself is not entangled with the copyright of Linux. And

Re: GPL 2(b) HUH?

2008-09-19 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Hyman Rosen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rahul Dhesi wrote: I think you missed the part where HyProg users were copying libGNU as the HyProg author's agents. It's not illegal to copy libGNU as authorized by the GPL. If I wanted to, I could ship, perhaps on separate media, a copy of libGNU and its

Re: GPL 2(b) HUH?

2008-09-19 Thread Hyman Rosen
Rahul Dhesi wrote: Why did you change the example? Is it because the previous example didn't work correctly? No, it's to try to remove as many extraneous issues as possible. Again, I assert that a program written to dynamically link with a GPLed library, which requires that library for its

Re: GPL 2(b) HUH?

2008-09-19 Thread Ben Pfaff
Hyman Rosen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Barry Margolin wrote: It's not the scheduler that's a derivative, it's the new Linux kernel that results from replacing the scheduler in the old kernel. I.e. Linux - schedulerA + schedulerB = derivative of Linux. But the new scheduler itself is not

Re: GPL 2(b) HUH?

2008-09-19 Thread Rjack
Rahul Dhesi wrote: Hyman Rosen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (Rjack, we need some out-of-context quotes to support my arguments here. Where are you when we need you?) Rahul, we need something out of you besides whining out of context quotes as your criticism of the various posts to a thread.

Re: GPL 2(b) HUH?

2008-09-19 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Hyman Rosen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Again, I assert that a program written to dynamically link with a GPLed library, which requires that library for its operation, may be distributed on any terms its author chooses. The FSF says that such a program must be distributed under the GPL. Wondering

Re: GPL 2(b) HUH?

2008-09-19 Thread Barry Margolin
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Hyman Rosen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Barry Margolin wrote: It's not the scheduler that's a derivative, it's the new Linux kernel that results from replacing the scheduler in the old kernel. I.e. Linux - schedulerA + schedulerB = derivative of Linux.

Re: GPL 2(b) HUH?

2008-09-19 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Rjack [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rahul, we need something out of you besides whining out of context quotes as your criticism of the various posts to a thread ... 1) Post the additional context to illustrate why readers' citations are out of context. Rjack, you repeatedly post on the same