Quoting Engel Nyst (engel.n...@gmail.com):
> Please allow me to ask the impossible question: how would you write
> the summary of GPLv3 vs GPLv2 in 8-16 words?
'I have written a truly remarkable comparison,
which, alas, this margin is too small to contain.'
On 8/19/2013 1:48 PM, Engel Nyst wrote:
Hello license-discuss,
Please allow me to ask the impossible question: how would you write
the summary of GPLv3 vs GPLv2 in 8-16 words?
No need to be so parsimonious -- the current blurb is 44 words.
Pam
Pamela S. Chestek, Esq.
Chestek Legal
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On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 08:48:06PM +0300, Engel Nyst wrote:
> Hello license-discuss,
>
> On 08/18/2013 04:38 AM, Richard Fontana wrote:
> >Independent of this point, I'm concerned about inaccurate statements
> >made on the choosealicense.com site (one that we talked about was the
> >assertion that
John Cowan wrote:
> Of course, the more such reassurances you add, the more complexity
> and uncertainty you interject into the situation: "the price of infinite
> precision is infinite verbosity", as we say in Lojbanistan, and adding
> more terms, while helpful to the sympathetic, just provides
John Cowan correctly observed:
> ... there is no escape from the dreaded ยง 203(a)(5), which explicitly
> says that you can't contract out of it.
Section 203(a) is only a *conditional* termination. The licensor must take
affirmative steps within a designated and brief period of time [1] to
exercis
Lawrence Rosen scripsit:
> Indeed I wish I were, like your father, paid by the word. Or paid
> by any other measure here
Eh? He was paid by the semester by the New Jersey taxpayers. His
articles weren't paid for at all. Are you googling the wrong Tom Cowan?
> Thanks for playing Huxley
John Cowan protested:
> Eh? [John's father] was paid by the semester by the New Jersey taxpayers.
> His articles weren't paid for at all. Are you googling the wrong Tom
Cowan?
Unfortunately I didn't Google at all. I just did Google that name, though,
and found one of his name, also a lawyer, wh
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[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example.
In principle, this should be a free software license as far as I can see.
It would cal
Hi!
> "Eben" == Eben Moglen writes:
Eben> Whatever the truth of the adage may be, the point for us is that none
Eben> of this has anything to do with licensing. Fred Trotter was actually
Eben> asking a question, to which the correct answer is: "You don't need a
Eben> license to make someth
Hi!
> "Eben" == Eben Moglen writes:
Eben> No, Mr Cowan. The license only exists if the precedent license hasn't
Eben> been terminated or revoked during the term. If it has, then the right
Eben> to distribute under free license has also terminated. No one should
Eben> take the code in r
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