NYC LOCAL: Tuesday 29 September 2009 NYLUG Python Workshop

2009-09-28 Thread secretary
From: NYLUG Announcements To: NYLUG Announcements Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:20:01 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [nylug-announce] NYLUG Python Workshop, (TOMORROW) September 29 6:00PM-8:00PM Reply-To: Announcements from NYLUG This is a reminder for the event detailed below. PYTHON WORKSHOP Da

Re: GPL upheld on appeal in France

2009-09-28 Thread John Hasler
David Kastrup writes: > It would not seem like a particularly important "victory". I think it is an obvious and predictable victory, but still an important one as it has a court establishing that the GPL is _not_ the same as public domain. This is obvious, but many trolls have asserted that it is

Re: GPL upheld on appeal in France

2009-09-28 Thread David Kastrup
Rjack writes: > John Hasler wrote: >> David Kastrup writes: >>> It would not seem like a particularly important "victory". >> >> I think it is an obvious and predictable victory, but still an >> important one as it has a court establishing that the GPL is _not_ >> the same as public domain. This

Re: GPL upheld on appeal in France

2009-09-28 Thread Rjack
John Hasler wrote: David Kastrup writes: It would not seem like a particularly important "victory". I think it is an obvious and predictable victory, but still an important one as it has a court establishing that the GPL is _not_ the same as public domain. This is obvious, but many trolls have

Re: Groklaw attacks Alexander -- Again

2009-09-28 Thread chrisv
Chris Ahlstrom wrote: >Rjack is a complete waste of time. A common troll. Yep. Plonked him long ago. -- 'poor UI experience, crappy GUI apps for the most part, lack of gaming, distro hell and too much legacy confusion about what "Linux" is.' - "True Linux advocate" Hadron Quark, explaining

Re: GPL upheld on appeal in France

2009-09-28 Thread David Kastrup
Alexander Terekhov writes: > David Kastrup wrote: > [...] >> But I agree that it does not seem to be of much importance or >> precedence. Pretty little in connection with GPL court cases is, since > > How come that up-thread you've been suggesting that this supposedly > groundbreaking ruling "mi

Re: GPL upheld on appeal in France

2009-09-28 Thread Alexander Terekhov
David Kastrup wrote: [...] > But I agree that it does not seem to be of much importance or > precedence. Pretty little in connection with GPL court cases is, since How come that up-thread you've been suggesting that this supposedly groundbreaking ruling "might change the GPL enforcement strategi

Re: GPL upheld on appeal in France

2009-09-28 Thread David Kastrup
Alexander Terekhov writes: > Some details about the ruling from folks who can read French. > > http://lwn.net/Articles/353967/ [...] > Parent article: GPL upheld in France > > I quickly read the ruling. Here a quick summary: The "standing to sue" > issue has not been addressed. The court appo

Re: GPL upheld on appeal in France

2009-09-28 Thread Alexander Terekhov
Some details about the ruling from folks who can read French. http://lwn.net/Articles/353967/ -- GPL upheld in France Posted Sep 23, 2009 20:38 UTC (Wed) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523) Parent article: GPL upheld in France I quickly read the ruling. Here a quick summary: The "standing to