David Johnson wrote:
One side sees dynamic linking as being similarly restricted. Arguments
cover the inclusion of header files whether or not the linking is
static or dynamic.
Whatever arguments there may be for the "restricted dynamic linking"
position (including the moral issue, which I
Well stated! I agree.
Rod Dixon, J.D., LL.M.
www.cyberspaces.org
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I was browsing the O'Reilly open-source page today and finally noticed the
link to the Common License Working Group. The link is at
http://opensource.oreilly.com/
The information on the Common License Working Group is here:
http://protected.speech.cs.cmu.edu/clwg/
I'm not
There is an excellent collection of articles in PDF form here:
http://www.macleoddixon.com/04public/Articles/04ARTPUB.HTML#intell
I thought I would pass that along in case anyone here is interested in
reading about the ins and out of software licensing, copyright, shrinkwrap,
etc., as it
G'day all.
I'm co-writing some software that is only really useful in a certain
media industry which doesn't have a history of being very "open" with
their source. If it is used within the industry, it will very likely
be internally modified by media producers and used to produce works,
and the
G'day all.
On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 05:53:20PM -0700, Seth David Schoen wrote:
There have been some rumors that version 3 of the GNU GPL may require
disclosure of source code in some cases of public performance.
I have also heard these rumours. I believe that this is intended to
deal with
Thanks for the tip!
Rod Dixon, J.D., LL.M.
www.cyberspaces.org
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There is an excellent
Andrew J Bromage writes:
The OSD has no particular comment on this, although many people have
felt that it is inappropriate to use a license to violate the privacy
of the users of some software package.
There may be media-creation software "out there" whose licences require
that works
On Mon, 03 Apr 2000, John Cowan wrote:
Whatever arguments there may be for the "restricted dynamic linking"
position (including the moral issue, which I think is substantial),
this one won't fly. Header files almost certainly don't have the
necessary originality to be themselves
On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 08:53:00PM -0700, David Johnson wrote:
I'm also curious about what you consider to be the "moral issue". I
would consider it wrong to use code in a way the author does not want
you to use it. But I have no other indication of what the author wants
beyond the text of
On Mon, 03 Apr 2000, Andrew J Bromage wrote:
I'd like to prevent this, but also, obviously, I'd prefer not to
trample on fair use. I suspect that the answer lies in restricting
"public performance". So let me ask the lawyers and non-lawyers:
I would be very leery of basing terms upon
On Mon, 03 Apr 2000, David Starner wrote:
But that's not true in many cases. For instance, anything RMS wrote. And
even in the cases which it is true, (something I wrote, say) you can often
ask the author. Otherwise, if the author really wanted you to dynamically link
and really thought
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