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On 7/08/00 at 21:57 David Johnson wrote:
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In some countries, the copyright is some of the most frequently
violated.
Most of the microsoft (and other commercial software..) are pirated.
Have you heard about Linux pirated??
There is no point in
On Mon, 07 Aug 2000, Greg Wright wrote:
Sorry, but I have to point this out because it is misleading, if you buy a
boxed set of RH software, and go about duplicating it, then selling it, I
am afraid your are breaking the law , RH does not give anyone the right to
duplicate its boxed set
It is my understanding that State government is not bound by the same
"public domain" requirements as the Federal government in 17 USC 105. That
is, because States are not explicitly included in the exclusions of who can
hold copyrights, States have the right to copyright their works.
Given
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From: Greg Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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Sorry, but I have to point this out because it is misleading, if you buy a
boxed set of RH software, and go about duplicating it, then selling it, I
am afraid your are breaking the law , RH does not give anyone
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From: Kristiono Setyadi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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What about the other version of Linux (like RedHat, Slackware, etc.)?
Can we say that the Kernel of the Linux have been changed?
They do not modify the kernel (except for the odd proprietary patch which
Terry Hancock wrote:
Is anyone familiar with this license and/or OSI's relationship to or
opinion of it?
The DSL was submitted for OSI approval last January; there has yet to
be a reply.
Like others had mentioned on this list around that time, it seems that
OSI might not be actively
To the Open Source community:
The board of directors of OSI, which has responsibility to approve licenses,
is composed of volunteers. They are doing their best to catch up with the
backlog of submitted licenses. Given their other activities, this is taking
more time than we'd like. I hope you
I think it may be a very good idea. In fact, some states are developing free
software...especially state-run universities. It's fairly well-known that
the contributions of the Univeristy of Illinois and UC-Berkeley are
significant in regards to Internet software.
States, of course, will not
I got pulled into a discussion on a non-software mailing list regarding
fonts. It was claimed that redistributing the Lucida fonts was illegal.
This surprised me since these are included with XFree86, which I still
consider to be freely redistributable. The dispute involved trying to
acquire
On Tue, 08 Aug 2000, Brice, Richard wrote:
It is my understanding that State government is not bound by the same
"public domain" requirements as the Federal government in 17 USC 105. That
is, because States are not explicitly included in the exclusions of who can
hold copyrights, States have
On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 01:36:06AM -0300, petruzza wrote:
I heard and read about Sun will release the source of StarOffice suite
in october.
Someone know that is truth ?
What you think about ?
This step will make SOffice better ? faster like Netscape, when the
source was freely ?
I think
On Tue, 8 Aug 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
StarOffice will be released under the GNU General Public License and the
SISL (a Sun-written variant of the Mozilla Public License) on October
13, 2000.
Actually SISSL is quite different from Mozilla. It uses some common
definitions which is why is
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