Re: the right to make a difference

2016-06-06 Thread Sam Bull
On Mon, 2016-06-06 at 12:58 +0200, Xen wrote: > Because of that it will be judged according to cases such as: > - game genie vs nintendo > - artic vs midway > - formgen vs micro star So, firstly, the GPL is a copyright licence, so the conversation has always been about copyright law. The only

Re: the right to make a difference

2016-06-03 Thread Sam Bull
On Thu, 2016-06-02 at 20:39 +0200, Xen wrote: > > This exactly has happened many times. If you take a proprietary > > piece > > of software, make changes and resell it (breaking the license > > agreement > > you received it under), then the original authors are perfectly in > > their rights to

Re: GRsecurity is preventing others from redistributing source code

2016-06-02 Thread Sam Bull
On Thu, 2016-06-02 at 13:54 +0200, Xen wrote: > Because they never asked for payment or set any conditions for access > to  > their work. Yes they did, the GPL is the set of conditions they made for access to their work. > If a book is in my hands, a vendor no longer has the ability to > direct 

Re: the right to make a difference

2016-06-02 Thread Sam Bull
On Thu, 2016-06-02 at 14:35 +0200, Xen wrote: > The intention of the GPL is not really relevant. > > What happens is that the authors remain to have a say about how the  > product is used, if copyright is at play (at least the idea of  > copyright). Yes, and the authors stated they require you

Re: the right to make a difference

2016-06-02 Thread Sam Bull
On Thu, 2016-06-02 at 12:31 +0200, Xen wrote: > > So I think the unfairness is very much there now. Spengler is now > > actually getting something for nothing, where before he was not, > > and > > the whole intention of many of the contributors to linux has been > > subverted. > Untrue. There was

Re: GRsecurity is preventing others from employing their rights under version 2 the GPL to redistribute source code

2016-06-01 Thread Sam Bull
As somebody previously mentioned the first time you posted this, I'm not sure why this is relevant to Ubuntu development? Perhaps you should get in touch with the Software Freedom Conservancy, and see if there is anything they can do. https://sfconservancy.org/ On Tue, 2016-05-31 at 03:12 +,

Re: Windows type shortcuts to files and folders

2015-07-14 Thread Sam Bull
On Sun, 2015-07-12 at 15:51 +0200, Johan Kriel wrote: Please guys, seriously consider the implementation of shortcuts as used by Windows in Ubuntu. Those shortcuts are of real good use and they don't create unnecessary extra symbolic paths to any folder. They are a simple direct jump to

Re: Windows type shortcuts to files and folders

2015-07-14 Thread Sam Bull
On Sun, 2015-07-12 at 15:51 +0200, Johan Kriel wrote: Please guys, seriously consider the implementation of shortcuts as used by Windows in Ubuntu. Those shortcuts are of real good use and they don't create unnecessary extra symbolic paths to any folder. They are a simple direct jump to

Re: Suppress opening the file browser when an external device is inserted

2015-07-06 Thread Sam Bull
On Mon, 2015-07-06 at 15:44 +, Patrick Bowen wrote: It becomes annoying if you are repeatedly having to do this... Would it be possible and feasible to suppress this behaviour? System Settings - Details One of the sections there allows you to set what to do when a device is inserted, I just

Re: Window Controls on the Right Side

2015-05-02 Thread Sam Bull
On ĵaŭ, 2015-04-30 at 00:04 -0400, John Moser wrote: Caveat: the alt-tab behavior is functionally useless; I believe it may be an abandoned feature, because it never gets fixed and behaves in entirely unjustifiable ways. The designers have thought about it. I don't necessarily agree with

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Feedback and Bug App

2014-12-17 Thread Sam Bull
On mer, 2014-12-17 at 00:17 -0500, Robert Schroll wrote: Firstly, I don't see anything here that requires an app. All of this could be done on a website. Once you have a website, you can make a webapp for Ubuntu very easily. I would agree with that. What I would like to see is reporting

Re: openssl performance delta built-in vs custom compiled

2014-12-16 Thread Sam Bull
On ven, 2014-12-12 at 23:53 +0100, Marcus Pollice wrote: I'd be grateful if someone could point out the reason for the difference and also how to compile binaries to achieve the same performance. I know nothing about openssl in particular, but you may see improvements simply due to the flags

Re: openssl performance delta built-in vs custom compiled

2014-12-16 Thread Sam Bull
On mar, 2014-12-16 at 15:31 +, Sam Bull wrote: On ven, 2014-12-12 at 23:53 +0100, Marcus Pollice wrote: I'd be grateful if someone could point out the reason for the difference and also how to compile binaries to achieve the same performance. Nevermind, I just realised the performance

Re: Upgrade issues

2014-06-03 Thread Sam Bull
On lun, 2014-06-02 at 12:50 -0700, Dale Amon wrote: The don't like much issues: * Procedure of mouse to top left corner, sweep to far right edge to select desktop is slow. And the images only show one screen. Would prefer getting a lower tool bar desktop selector

Re: Fix Blender package?

2014-01-20 Thread Sam Bull
On Mon, 2014-01-20 at 11:59 +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: This is not bad packaging but a library which is not yet packaged. The best thing is to provide a source package packaging this library. So please package the collada library. OK, that's a bit clearer. I don't have the time at the

Fix Blender package?

2014-01-19 Thread Sam Bull
to use Ubuntu to develop games, but it's a bit of a barrier if we can't export our models for use in the game without needing to manually install it from the website on everybody's machine. Thanks, Sam Bull signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss