Re: Licensing and public performance

2000-04-03 Thread David Johnson
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 "pu

Re: Licensing and public performance

2000-04-03 Thread Seth David Schoen
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 > tha

Re: Licensing and public performance

2000-04-03 Thread Andrew J Bromage
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 s

Re: Licensing and public performance

2000-04-03 Thread Seth David Schoen
Andrew J Bromage writes: > 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 produce

Licensing and public performance

2000-04-03 Thread Andrew J Bromage
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