Re: Group Copyright
On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Joseph Carter wrote:
>On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 08:46:19AM -0600, John Galt wrote:
>> Ask Dmitriy Sklyarov how ineffectual it is....
>
>Isn't he the guy who treatened to sue over archives? If so, then yeah, I
>was shocked and dismayed to see something resembling a backbone for a nice
>change of pace. Regarding legal absurdities relating to xine-css, drivers
>for the CueCat, and other would-be proprietary stuff, we'll see. I don't
>have a lot of faith in this sort of thing until the DMCA in the US and
>probably similar laws elsewhere are struck down as the sad jokes that they
>are.
No, he's the russian being held without bail for cracking Adobe's
encryption.
>
>> >I can just envision being able to declare it sinful to violate the GPL.
>> >It would throw a few BSD guys I know into fits. ;) Definite potential
>> >there just for the sake of watching them sputter about the evils of GNU
>> >for an hour or so. =D
>>
>> Most of the BSD types that care about the BSD/GPL thing already think that
>> the GPL advocates have a holier than thou attitude anyways...
>
>They're partly right - the attitude comes from the FSF and many people
>using the license. Whether or not it's bad is a personal judgement. In
>any event, the GPL is basically the best license for what it does at the
>moment. People wouldn't use it if there were something better. So far,
>there isn't.
This is true, so logically I'd avoid any assignment to the FSF if there
were any BSD zealots. Perhaps the EFF or CAUCE...
--
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it is the number of a man; and his number is VI VI VI.
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