Re: [Ilugc] Free and Open Source Licenses

2011-03-07 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 03/06/2011 08:36 PM, Kumaran R wrote: > Hi, > > > As I've already told in the January meeting, my dad wants to do more in > FOSS. I suggested that he could become an advocate and legal advisor for FOSS > projects. As he is interested in Intellectual Property rights, he accepted > that he

Re: [Ilugc] Free and Open Source Licenses

2011-03-07 Thread Kumaran R
Hi, Thanks for the reply and the link. By the term of Intellectual Property rights, I meant to say RTI, Patents, etc,. He's already doing RTI related filings. By the way, he's busy as it is with his profession, it was just due to my request, that he said that he'd take a look into the le

Re: [Ilugc] Free and Open Source Licenses

2011-03-06 Thread Swapnil
> there is no such thing as intellectual property rights - in fact the > whole term is an oxymoron. ++ Swapnil ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] Free and Open Source Licenses

2011-03-06 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Sun, 2011-03-06 at 10:06 -0500, Kumaran R wrote: > As he is interested in Intellectual Property rights, there is no such thing as intellectual property rights - in fact the whole term is an oxymoron. -- regards KG http://lawgon.livejournal.com Coimbatore LUG rox http://ilugcbe.techstud.org/ _

Re: [Ilugc] Free and Open Source Licenses

2011-03-06 Thread satyaakam goswami
On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 8:36 PM, Kumaran R wrote: > Hi, > > > As I've already told in the January meeting, my dad wants to do more in > FOSS. I suggested that he could become an advocate and legal advisor for > FOSS projects. As he is interested in Intellectual Property rights, he > accepted t

[Ilugc] Free and Open Source Licenses

2011-03-06 Thread Kumaran R
Hi, As I've already told in the January meeting, my dad wants to do more in FOSS. I suggested that he could become an advocate and legal advisor for FOSS projects. As he is interested in Intellectual Property rights, he accepted that he'd help us. I've asked him to read the GPL, which he