Jason Liquorish wrote:
After seeing a lot of posts about getting media from sites such as
bbc.co.uk http://bbc.co.uk working I saw this on the Nottingham LUGs
mailing list:
Hi all,
The BBC iPlayer - which provides access to BBC programming for up to
30 days after it's aired - will be
You do have to hand it to Richard Stallman, Eben Moglen and their
colleagues - the genius evident in GPLv3 just takes your breath away:
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/microsoft_the_copyright_infringer
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070709101318827
Mac
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In reply to the suggestions!
Popey: Good idea, why reinvent the wheel? Perhaps we could continue
using the marketing list with an email prefix of [UK]
How about this then for ideas:
Mailing List: Using current ubuntu marketing mailing list
IRC: Create channel
Launchpad: Members to join ubuntu
Mac wrote:
You do have to hand it to Richard Stallman, Eben Moglen and their
colleagues - the genius evident in GPLv3 just takes your breath away:
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/microsoft_the_copyright_infringer
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070709101318827
Mac
Rob Beard wrote:
alan c wrote:
Why not contribute to the existing marketing team? Why fork?
The existing marketing team is not UK specific. The UK media,
temperament, retail environment etc are all specific to uk.
A recent discussion (for me) on the (global) marketing list included
Alan Pope wrote:
Hi Alan,
On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 23:02 +0100, alan c wrote:
Why not contribute to the existing marketing team? Why fork?
The existing marketing team is not UK specific. The UK media,
temperament, retail environment etc are all specific to uk.
Sure, but that
Mac wrote:
As I understand it, GPLv3 is not a contract; it's a waiver of copyright
that passes to those who also waive copyright. This is what's so clever
about it - it just doesn't work like a contract or licence. I think
this is why patent/copyright lawyers have such trouble with it:
signed
On 10/07/07, Terence Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jason Liquorish wrote:
After seeing a lot of posts about getting media from sites such as
bbc.co.uk http://bbc.co.uk working I saw this on the Nottingham LUGs
mailing list:
Hi all,
The BBC iPlayer - which provides access
Matthew Larsen wrote:
signed
I am trying to sign it but do not seem to have received the contact
email. Did yours arrive in timely fashion?
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Hi Alan,
Matthew Larsen wrote:
signed
I am trying to sign it but do not seem to have received the contact
email. Did yours arrive in timely fashion?
I signed the petition a few minutes ago - the receipt email came in
within seconds. My name was on the bottom of the petition too so it
On 10/07/07, alan c [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alan Pope wrote:
Hi Alan,
On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 23:02 +0100, alan c wrote:
Why not contribute to the existing marketing team? Why fork?
The existing marketing team is not UK specific. The UK media,
temperament, retail environment etc
Matthew Larsen wrote:
yeah instantly :oS
On 10/07/07, alan c [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Matthew Larsen wrote:
signed
I am trying to sign it but do not seem to have received the contact
email. Did yours arrive in timely fashion?
Ah, I see my name halfway up the long list so I must have
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 01:47:13PM +0100, alan c wrote:
Ah, I see my name halfway up the long list so I must have signed it a
while ago - so maybe duplicates are ignored :-)
It does make me chuckle when I scroll down these petitions to see the same
names pop up :)
I know him!
and him!
*HE*
On 7/10/07, Mark Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mac wrote:
As I understand it, GPLv3 is not a contract; it's a waiver of copyright
that passes to those who also waive copyright. This is what's so clever
about it - it just doesn't work like a contract or licence. I think
this is why
Mark Harrison wrote:
It's hard to see, however, how any legal document written on 1st July
could retrospectively apply to a contract signed on the 30th June unless
the contract made specific provision for itself to be modified.
I may be wrong, but I thought that's exactly what GPLv2 had
I wonder of those who sign it have also signed up and subscribed support
to the open rights group as well ?
Also , wouldnt it be great to have a openID with openrights that we
could use to sign the petitions with ?
http://www.openrightsgroup.org/
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Mark Harrison wrote:
Mac wrote:
You do have to hand it to Richard Stallman, Eben Moglen and their
colleagues - the genius evident in GPLv3 just takes your breath away:
I'm no lawyer, but in the UK at least, there are at least two problems
with the legal analysis here:
- I had understood
Matthew East wrote:
snip
...The GPL is a license (hence the L) by which (among
other things) the licensor and copyright holder grants the licensee the
right to use and redistribute the program subject to certain conditions.
A license is a type of contract, in this case between the program
Mac wrote:
That seems to me not contract, but a beautiful and unexpected
inversion of copyright law.
I'm sorry, but I don't understand this line of argument... Let me
explain my understanding first, then someone can tell me what I'm missing...
- A contract is a legally binding agreement
Lee Tambiah wrote:
Without disscussion I think the GPL 3 is a very good license which
protects Free Software and overall should strengthen it.
I agree.
I agree that you, and any programmer, should have the right to choose
the GPLv3 in new products you create. However, I also believe that
Does someone want to setup the Launchpad site then? I'm quite keen on seeing
a few case
studies like the ones that alan c is mentioning being uploaded and easier to
find that having
to trawl the lists. It's valuable information that needs to be easily
accessible to marketeers.
No
Hiya
* Mac:
Matthew East wrote:
That seems to me not contract, but a beautiful and unexpected
inversion of copyright law.
A beautiful inversion of copyright law isn't a legal concept.
The extract you've cited from Eben isn't addressing the mechanism by
which an author who publishes
I've set a launchpad team up here that people can join:
https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-uk-marketing
Still working on it though but at least you should be able to join up.
Chris
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Hi folks,
I've set up the ubuntu-uk-marketing launchpad team, created a leaflets
project and assigned the leaflets project to the team.
If you want to join the ubuntu-uk-marketing team, you can do so here:
https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-uk-marketing
The leaflets project is sat here in
OK,
To kick off/demo the usage of launchpad as our storage/development
medium I uploaded the leaflet I made originally to a branch of our
leaflet project.
To upload your stuff to launchpad you'll need bazaar. I wrote a
tutorial on using it a wee while ago for anyone who isn't familiar
with it:
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