It requires unreleased derivative works to be licensed to others.
Private modifications which are not released are permitted without restriction under fair use.
If you don't release a modified work, you have not created a derivitive work.
If you haven't released it, no one can use it anyway.
Practically speaking, this would only come into play if the modifications are stolen. If the modifications were stolen and released to the public, you could not sue anyone for using those modifications. This is intentional, as it is one of the loopholes in the GPL.
It allows patented derivative works to be restricted (by the patent).
You are granted a license from the creator of the derivitive work to use the work without restriction. My non-lawyer guess is that this would allow you to use any applicable method regarding patents. Third party patents would still apply of course, but I don't see any way to protect against this. If anyone could come up with a way to fix this, I'd certainly consider it.
Why not just use the GPL?
Because the GPL forces those creating derivitive works to release the source code to those works. I do not believe that the government should be involved in copyright law, and the purpose of this license is to cause all creators of derivitive works to abandon all rights under copyright law for the derivitive work. I do not believe the government should be involved in making sure that the creators of software release source code. Another problem with the GPL is that it is full of loopholes. I have attempted to create a free software license which is copylefted to the fullest extent possible under copyright law. In essence, I do not want the government or courts to ever get involved, except to throw out a copyright suit for a work which is derived from a work licensed under this license.
How can I submit my license. It's a cross between the GPL and BSD license, although it's not compatible with either. It also suffers from fewer loopholes than the GPL. Here goes:
Copying, distribution, and use of this work is permitted without restriction. Creation of derivitive works is permitted provided that you cause any such work to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties under the terms of this License.
all that Warner has to do is include some crappy DVD player s/w with every film.
Sounds like unlawful bundling of a monopoly product (such as American Pie DVDs) with another product (DVD software), in order to extend the market of that second product.
OTOH, if a DVD is software, and not a motion picture, I can publicly display it and charge for admission. There is no right to public display for software.
Actually, the DMCA makes no distinction between individuals and companies. It protects individuals from individuals, individuals from companies, companies from individuals, and companies from companies. Further, the DMCA does not prosecute you under criminal law unless you're out to make a profit.
The EU privacy directive protects individuals from themselves. If you don't want cookies, turn your cookies off. If you want notification, turn notification on.
So if a citizen was running a website for his or her individually run business, he or she couldn't be prosecuted under this law? Microsoft may get into trouble, or a citizen may get into trouble. Can a citizen of a country which does not follow the law get in trouble? I sure as hell hope not.
I can't think of many. Shopping cart type uses can be done through URLs, and saving login passwords can be done through HTTP-AUTH. I guess the only usefulness for cookies which can't be replicated would be storing preferences client-side and tracking people. As for storing preferences client-side, I can't think of a single major site which uses cookies for that purpose.
My IBM drive just finally crashed, and I was amazed at how much quieter my machine is now that I've removed it. OTOH, now I have to figure out how to wipe the drive clean before sending it to IBM for repair/replacement. Anyone know if some really big magnets will do the trick?
It seems to me that the USPO desperately needs programmers (CS people) to look at the flood of incoming software patents to prevent cascades of lawsuits like the ones following the dot-com bust
They sure don't know that. Not only are they not actively hiring CS majors as patent agents, you can't even become a patent agent with a degree from most CS programs. Yep, spent four years at Rutgers, graduated at the top of my class, and I'm not even qualified to reject patent applications. OK, OK, Rutgers is a shitty school, but still...
I wasn't stating my own point of view, I was stating the point of view of the FSF. "I consider that the golden rule requires that if I like a program I must share it with other people who like it." (http://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.html) According to the FSF, which is what the GPL is all about, it is immoral to not contribute to the open source community. According to the FSF, they do owe it to you.
Even despite the fact that a year is how long a planet take to swing around a star and that light speed is constant.
A year is not "how long a planet take[s] to swing around a star". A year is "how long the Earth takes to swing around the sun". That's the point I'm making, anyway.
A year is a year no matter what planet you're living on. Do you really think aliens on another planet have a unit of measurement called a "year" which is the amount of time that it takes their planet to circle their sun? Somehow I doubt it.
"Thanks to an extremely generous offer of code from OEone Corporation?" I thought it was morally wrong to not offer code to everyone for free. We wouldn't say "thanks to an extremely generous offer of not stealing" would we?
This one is kind of a 'last chance' for highschoolers who are one step away from dropping out completely.
In addition, nearly ALL of them were very bright and picked up flash far quicker than I ever did!
Wait a second. Are you saying that nearly all students in Seattle schools are "very bright", or are you saying that those who are one step away from dropping out completely are brighter than the average Seattle student? Neither makes sense to me.
If you don't know what you're doing, this is a good option, but if you have the time to replace parts and such, you can probably buy two computers for the price of the one Dell, and just swap out parts when they fail. By the time they are likely to fail the price for replacement parts will probably be 1/3 to 1/5 of the original price, so you can easily upgrade while you're at it. If you're capable *and willing* to do it yourself, it makes little sense to buy a Dell. If you're not capable or your time is worth too much (such as some businesses), Dell might be the way to go.
RedHat 7.1. And it tries an automatic fsck, but that fails because there are errors which cannot be fixed except through a manual fsck. I suspect bugs in the ext2 code (perhaps it isn't handling my 39 gig partition well), and I've turned on "panic on error detection" but so far I've not gotten any panics. Could be hardware related but I would think that bad blocks would be detected somewhere.
I want to give my mother Linux, but so far I've only managed to move her off of Macintosh and onto Win2k. And she hasn't called me for help yet (although my father who uses 98 just called me yesterday because his audio stopped working). Anyway, this is how I gauge the potential success of linux. Until I can get my parents using it, I don't think it's ready for the mass public.
And Linux doesn't? I mean, come on... Is GNOME/KDE actually AHEAD of Microsoft in the UI department?
The question was to compare XP to Win2k, not to Linux. Today I had to do a manual FSCK on bootup. My mom certainly wouldn't know how to do that. That and things like it are the reason XP is lightyears ahead of Linux.
For $400, you could get a Celeron 600 with a 60 gig HD, 1 gig of ram, and a 17 inch monitor. That's not much worse than the system I'm using now (only difference is I have Celeron 600 with 4 60 gig HDs).
If you're a USA citizen, you might try emailing your congressional representatives with your opinions.
No! Please don't do this. Congressional representatives get enough opinions as it is. Send your reprentatives facts which support your opinion. We can only hope that she or he will ignore the opinions of the uninformed public (which would probably support the SSSCA) and instead get the facts from those who know them, and then make his or her own opinion as to what is best for the country as a whole.
Exercise your opinion at the polls. Your opinion as to which candidate is going to do the best for this country (or for you if you're the selfish type). Between elections let your representative do the job he or she was elected to do. If your representative wants opinions, your representative will seek them out, either through polls or through special panels.
The exception of course is for the lower level officials who you can get to know on a person to person basis. But anonymous letters from some anonymous concerned citizen likely go straight into the trash (after some poor worker checks it for anthrax).
One simple solution is simply to treat the time you spend on the searches as part of your employment time. If you are required to work from 9 to 5, and you spend 30 minutes being searched on your way to your car, start leaving at 4:30.
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It requires unreleased derivative works to be licensed to others.
It allows patented derivative works to be restricted (by the patent).
You are granted a license from the creator of the derivitive work to use the work without restriction. My non-lawyer guess is that this would allow you to use any applicable method regarding patents. Third party patents would still apply of course, but I don't see any way to protect against this. If anyone could come up with a way to fix this, I'd certainly consider it.
Why not just use the GPL?
Because the GPL forces those creating derivitive works to release the source code to those works. I do not believe that the government should be involved in copyright law, and the purpose of this license is to cause all creators of derivitive works to abandon all rights under copyright law for the derivitive work. I do not believe the government should be involved in making sure that the creators of software release source code. Another problem with the GPL is that it is full of loopholes. I have attempted to create a free software license which is copylefted to the fullest extent possible under copyright law. In essence, I do not want the government or courts to ever get involved, except to throw out a copyright suit for a work which is derived from a work licensed under this license.
How can I submit my license. It's a cross between the GPL and BSD license, although it's not compatible with either. It also suffers from fewer loopholes than the GPL. Here goes:
Any comments? Anyone see any potential loopholes?
all that Warner has to do is include some crappy DVD player s/w with every film.
Sounds like unlawful bundling of a monopoly product (such as American Pie DVDs) with another product (DVD software), in order to extend the market of that second product.
OTOH, if a DVD is software, and not a motion picture, I can publicly display it and charge for admission. There is no right to public display for software.
Actually, the DMCA makes no distinction between individuals and companies. It protects individuals from individuals, individuals from companies, companies from individuals, and companies from companies. Further, the DMCA does not prosecute you under criminal law unless you're out to make a profit.
The EU privacy directive protects individuals from themselves. If you don't want cookies, turn your cookies off. If you want notification, turn notification on.
So if a citizen was running a website for his or her individually run business, he or she couldn't be prosecuted under this law? Microsoft may get into trouble, or a citizen may get into trouble. Can a citizen of a country which does not follow the law get in trouble? I sure as hell hope not.
And the word is "then".
I can't think of many. Shopping cart type uses can be done through URLs, and saving login passwords can be done through HTTP-AUTH. I guess the only usefulness for cookies which can't be replicated would be storing preferences client-side and tracking people. As for storing preferences client-side, I can't think of a single major site which uses cookies for that purpose.
Next thing you know, an American Citizen will be arrested and jailed for giving a speech on shopping cart systems at a Web-Con Europe.
Yes, this is a troll. But it's meant to be a funny one.
My IBM drive just finally crashed, and I was amazed at how much quieter my machine is now that I've removed it. OTOH, now I have to figure out how to wipe the drive clean before sending it to IBM for repair/replacement. Anyone know if some really big magnets will do the trick?
year - "The period of time as measured by the Gregorian calendar in which the earth completes a single revolution around the sun"
I guess The American Heritage Dictionary New College Edition is wrong as well. And dictionary.com too. And Mirriam-Webster Online too.
Then again, maybe it's just you.
It seems to me that the USPO desperately needs programmers (CS people) to look at the flood of incoming software patents to prevent cascades of lawsuits like the ones following the dot-com bust
They sure don't know that. Not only are they not actively hiring CS majors as patent agents, you can't even become a patent agent with a degree from most CS programs. Yep, spent four years at Rutgers, graduated at the top of my class, and I'm not even qualified to reject patent applications. OK, OK, Rutgers is a shitty school, but still...
I wasn't stating my own point of view, I was stating the point of view of the FSF. "I consider that the golden rule requires that if I like a program I must share it with other people who like it." (http://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.html) According to the FSF, which is what the GPL is all about, it is immoral to not contribute to the open source community. According to the FSF, they do owe it to you.
Even despite the fact that a year is how long a planet take to swing around a star and that light speed is constant.
A year is not "how long a planet take[s] to swing around a star". A year is "how long the Earth takes to swing around the sun". That's the point I'm making, anyway.
how long is a year if you aren't living on earth?
A year is a year no matter what planet you're living on. Do you really think aliens on another planet have a unit of measurement called a "year" which is the amount of time that it takes their planet to circle their sun? Somehow I doubt it.
"Thanks to an extremely generous offer of code from OEone Corporation?" I thought it was morally wrong to not offer code to everyone for free. We wouldn't say "thanks to an extremely generous offer of not stealing" would we?
Now, that is funny....how can you be overrated when no one has rated you in the first place.
If you gave yourself +1 Bonus and you didn't deserve it, you overrated yourself.
This one is kind of a 'last chance' for highschoolers who are one step away from dropping out completely.
In addition, nearly ALL of them were very bright and picked up flash far quicker than I ever did!
Wait a second. Are you saying that nearly all students in Seattle schools are "very bright", or are you saying that those who are one step away from dropping out completely are brighter than the average Seattle student? Neither makes sense to me.
Does hotmail work fine? I couldn't care less about MSN, all that is right now is a big advertisement for Windows XP anyway.
If you don't know what you're doing, this is a good option, but if you have the time to replace parts and such, you can probably buy two computers for the price of the one Dell, and just swap out parts when they fail. By the time they are likely to fail the price for replacement parts will probably be 1/3 to 1/5 of the original price, so you can easily upgrade while you're at it. If you're capable *and willing* to do it yourself, it makes little sense to buy a Dell. If you're not capable or your time is worth too much (such as some businesses), Dell might be the way to go.
RedHat 7.1. And it tries an automatic fsck, but that fails because there are errors which cannot be fixed except through a manual fsck. I suspect bugs in the ext2 code (perhaps it isn't handling my 39 gig partition well), and I've turned on "panic on error detection" but so far I've not gotten any panics. Could be hardware related but I would think that bad blocks would be detected somewhere.
I want to give my mother Linux, but so far I've only managed to move her off of Macintosh and onto Win2k. And she hasn't called me for help yet (although my father who uses 98 just called me yesterday because his audio stopped working). Anyway, this is how I gauge the potential success of linux. Until I can get my parents using it, I don't think it's ready for the mass public.
And Linux doesn't? I mean, come on... Is GNOME/KDE actually AHEAD of Microsoft in the UI department?
The question was to compare XP to Win2k, not to Linux. Today I had to do a manual FSCK on bootup. My mom certainly wouldn't know how to do that. That and things like it are the reason XP is lightyears ahead of Linux.
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For $400, you could get a Celeron 600 with a 60 gig HD, 1 gig of ram, and a 17 inch monitor. That's not much worse than the system I'm using now (only difference is I have Celeron 600 with 4 60 gig HDs).
Aren't we being a little presumptuous here? Kind of like saying all members of that linux gang are hackers...
If you're a USA citizen, you might try emailing your congressional representatives with your opinions.
No! Please don't do this. Congressional representatives get enough opinions as it is. Send your reprentatives facts which support your opinion. We can only hope that she or he will ignore the opinions of the uninformed public (which would probably support the SSSCA) and instead get the facts from those who know them, and then make his or her own opinion as to what is best for the country as a whole.
Exercise your opinion at the polls. Your opinion as to which candidate is going to do the best for this country (or for you if you're the selfish type). Between elections let your representative do the job he or she was elected to do. If your representative wants opinions, your representative will seek them out, either through polls or through special panels.
The exception of course is for the lower level officials who you can get to know on a person to person basis. But anonymous letters from some anonymous concerned citizen likely go straight into the trash (after some poor worker checks it for anthrax).
The only problem is the failure to play ogg files. I no longer have any mp3s, so this isn't as useful as it could be.
Yeah, I sure don't want to break any patent laws while I'm burning my 5 gigs of copyright violations.
One simple solution is simply to treat the time you spend on the searches as part of your employment time. If you are required to work from 9 to 5, and you spend 30 minutes being searched on your way to your car, start leaving at 4:30.