Re: Artifex v. Diebold: "The GPL is non-commercial!"

2009-02-08 Thread Andrew Halliwell
Rjack wrote: > Nope. It's gospel truth like the saying "all license are contracts" > that is put out to educate people concerning copyright licensing. The gospel according to bill... -- | spi...@freenet.co.uk | Windows95 (noun): 32 bit extensions and a| | | gra

Re: Artifex v. Diebold: "The GPL is non-commercial!"

2009-02-08 Thread amicus_curious
"Doug Mentohl" wrote in message news:gmmuqd$od...@news.datemas.de... amicus_curious wrote: Your question is too complicated for a simple answer. Please quote all relevant legislation in any jurisdiction .. But in the context of this thread, the downloading is expressly permitted and the

Re: Artifex v. Diebold: "The GPL is non-commercial!"

2009-02-08 Thread Doug Mentohl
amicus_curious wrote: Your question is too complicated for a simple answer. Please quote all relevant legislation in any jurisdiction .. But in the context of this thread, the downloading is expressly permitted and the GPL allows for your unfettered personal use of both the binary image an

Re: Artifex v. Diebold: "The GPL is non-commercial!"

2009-02-08 Thread Rjack
Andrew Halliwell wrote: Hyman Rosen wrote: Rjack wrote: falsely convincing innocent programmers that the GPL license can steal their exclusive rights granted to them by under 17 USC 106. What in the world are you talking about? How can a license steal anything? The only way anyone's work fall

Re: Artifex v. Diebold: "The GPL is non-commercial!"

2009-02-08 Thread Andrew Halliwell
Hyman Rosen wrote: > Rjack wrote: >> falsely convincing innocent programmers that the GPL >> license can steal their exclusive rights granted to > > them by under 17 USC 106. > > What in the world are you talking about? How can a license > steal anything? The only way anyone's work falls under th

Re: [ROFL] GCC's GPLv3 "Updated License Exception"

2009-02-08 Thread Hyman Rosen
Rjack wrote: Sigh. . . a compiler "transforms" from one language representation to another: A compiler is a computer program (or set of programs) that transforms source code written in a computer language (the source language) into another computer language (the target language, often having a b

Re: Artifex v. Diebold: "The GPL is non-commercial!"

2009-02-08 Thread Hyman Rosen
Rjack wrote: falsely convincing innocent programmers that the GPL license can steal their exclusive rights granted to > them by under 17 USC 106. What in the world are you talking about? How can a license steal anything? The only way anyone's work falls under the GPL is if they voluntarily plac

Re: Artifex v. Diebold: "The GPL is non-commercial!"

2009-02-08 Thread Hyman Rosen
David Kastrup wrote: In a similar vein, if there is just one purpose behind a two-company construct, then the judicial evaluation will take this into account. These days, devices are built from parts supplied by many different companies. There is no reason to suppose that the software for the d