Blake's 7 was good 70s british sci-fi. it had crap special effects, but that really didn't matter (same as Dr Who before the recent BBC Wales reboot had the same crap special effects by pretty much the same team, but had much better stories - and far less dr-who-is-an-angsty-supernatural-action-hero crap)
I expect the remake will be trashy american magical fantasy with rayguns, just like almost all all american allegedly-"science fiction" TV & movies....anti-tech, anti-science, anti-intellectual garbage.
it'll be all magic crystals, positive affirmations and mystical nonsense - you can do it, Luke^H^H^H^HBlake - just stop thinking and switch off your mind and the magic will happen.
(i don't mind Fantasy - in fact, i like a good fantasy novel or movie - but i despise fantasy that's pretending to be SF. they're two completely different things, even if publishers and bookshops like to pretend they're the same)
While I am not a lawyer, I have actually done reading on this topic and I am certain that almost everything you wrote is wrong
that's nice for you. I'm certain you don't have a clue what you're talking about.
you certainly don't know enough to be encouraging anyone to bet against an expensive lawsuit - which doesn't actually have to win in order to succeed, it just has to bankrupt you (in which case, it wins by default because you don't afford lawyers to defend yourself any more)
I wouldn't want to bet on that. Compiling and linking CDDL module source against the kernel's GPL source almost certainly creates a derived work (it's complicated but, in short: depends on whether it just uses header information or actually links in kernel code).
Distributing a CDDL source-code plus scripts package (e.g. a zfs-dkms package) which compiles the zfs kernel modules on the user's own machine as a result of the user's explicit action (i.e. to install zfs-dkms package) still creates a derivative work but because the user is NOT re-distributing that derivative, it does not violate the terms of the GPL.
The GPL only restricts distribution, it does not restrict usage...this is not a bug in the GPL, it is a design feature...it's the way it's supposed to work.
Sabayon Linux and Gentoo Linux are currently shipping ZFS binary modules on their live media.
Good luck to them - that's not a legal risk i'd want to take. Any one of the kernel's many contributors could be offended enough to sue.
The greater risk is Oracle seeing an excuse to sue - they're a huge corporate with a highly-competitive no-holds-barred attitude, lots of money and attack-lawyers on staff, and they're not only the owners of the ZFS copyright, they're also contributors to the kernel.
Huge corporates care less about bad publicity and PR backlash than most people think, they care only as much as it has the ability to have a sustained long-term effect on their bottom-line....and even then they only care if they've got a mass-market product that's vulnerable to mass boycott, or their activities bring on the ire of one of the large, mainstream activist groups.
The risk of annoying geeks with a low-profile (no children killed or baby animals tortured or rivers being polluted or particular group of people being discriminated against) issue like software licensing really won't stop them. We're not Oracle's target market, anyway - at best we're useful-but-optional marketing auxilliaries to provide some "geek cred" for their product....their target market is other corporations.
The practical effect is that you won't ever see a kernel implementation of ZFS ship with a Distro unless oracle relicenses ZFS. You'll have to download, compile, and install ZFS yourself for the Linux-based computers that you want to use it on. And that's perfectly legal within the scope of the licenses.
A zfs-dkms module package is also possible, which automates the compile and install of the kernel module.
There are un-official packages for ubuntu and debian already which do this (spl-dkms and zfs-dkms for the kernel modules, plus some other packages for libs and utilities) - this is how i run zfs-on-linux on my debian systems: I git pull the source repo for dajhorn's ubuntu packages and rebuild them for debian. Only one minor edit is needed to pkg-zfs/debian/control, change the dependancy on 'zfs-grub' to 'zfs-grub | grub'....since I don't boot from ZFS this works well for me. I think it would work any because the grub package in debian has zfs support built in. Once they're built I can install them with 'dpkg -i'....they install with as little trouble as any other package (they just take longer because they have to be compiled against the current kernel-header package). if the dkms packages were apt-gettable, it would be even easier.
There's no legal impediment to such packages being officially in debian (which already has similar dkms packages for other free-but-not-GPL-compatible modules, and debian even has some xxxx-dkms packages in non-free for nvidia and fglrx and similar non-free kernel modules).
As long as the kernel and ZFS are distributed not as a combined work but separately which the end-user has to combine themselves, then there is no derivative being distributed (the GPL's goal is not to prevent users from exercising their freedom to use software as they please, its goal is to prevent GPL code being distributed embedded in proprietary software)
BTW, debian also already has a zfs-fuse package which contains the CDDL zfs code plus dual-licensed GPL2 and CDDL packaging scripts. Debian also has a Debian GNU/kfreeBSD port which can have zfs natively without any licensing issues to work around (CDDL is compatible with BSD license, but not with GPL)
Other distros tend to care less about the niceties of adhering to licenses than debian does so may take some short-cuts - but my bet is that they'll do something very similar to the above to avoid giving Oracle any excuse for suing them.
This demonstrates the danger of including in international agreements rigid provisions that do not accommodate technological development.
no, it demonstrates the danger of allowing corporations to limit national sovereignty by lobbying for and getting so-called "Free Trade Agreements".
Every single one of them is designed not to promote or encourage trade but to restrict the ability of governments of the signing nations to make laws or policies that interfere with corporate interests.
which is why they're giving nice-sounding names like "Free Trade Agreement" rather than "Stealth Takeover of Government Act"
yes. the emergent behaviour of complex systems can indeed seem like intelligent life with a mind of it's own. and it really doesn't matter if it really is intelligent life or if it just simulates it - the results are the same.
"professionalism" requires people to suppress their humanity (with specific individuals doing so to a greater or lesser degree) and act in the interests of their employing corporation. the peons keep their heads down and do what they're told...or else they quit or get sacked or get stuck in dead-end roles with little or no autonomy. the consequences of losing your job, your income, and even your medical insurance (in barabaric countries without national health insurance) is an enormous incentive to just follow orders.
also, the hierarchical structure combined with the prevailing cultural mythology of dog-eat-dog greed-is-good and greed-justifies-anything capitalism tends to insure that sociopaths and psychopaths tend to rise to the top and to other positions of power and authority within the organisation.
i bet you could get the recruiters to stop harassing you if you told them that you'd love to be trained at their expense so you'd have valuable and useful military skills when you join the american communist revolutionary army.
or just ask them if you'd get in trouble for accidentally shooting an officer - you want to know because you're a bit clumsy and accident-prone when it comes to hierarchies and saluting and the like.
corporations are NOT "just a group of people", any more than people are "just a group of cells".
corporations are an artificial life form (that exist within the eco-system of laws) that happen to use people as components in a similar manner to the way people have cells as components- their needs and their objectives are as removed from the needs of their human components as our needs and objectives are as removed from those of our individual cells.
and, just as us humans adapt our ecosystem to suit ourselves, corporations do the same - with the same consequences to everything/everyone else (i.e. us) that depends upon or is affected by the legal eco-system......and their adaptions of their ecosystem are done with as much concern and care for us humans as we show for an ant colony when we clear ground to build a home.
and the worst thing is that we humans made them and let them loose.
we dont need to be scared of the science-fictional prospect of artificial intelligence like SkyNet - we've already created hostile and inimical artificial "life" and it has escaped our control with real world consequences happening right now that are just as deadly.
And if you have paid for your mobile device, and aren't bound by a service agreement or other obligation, you should be able to use it on another network.
even if you purchased the phone with a service agreement you should still be able to use the phone on another network.
locking the phone and the legal obligations of a service contract are two separate issues.
i.e. regardless of whether the phone is locked or not, or whether you're using it on the original telco service or not, you're still obligated to pay your monthly fees for the original contract (or paying whatever early termination fee you agreed to).
The sole purpose of locking the phone in that situation is to be an anti-competitive obstacle to using your own property (the phone) as you see fit once the service agreement has expired or been paid out.
i don't know if such anti-competitive behaviour is illegal in the US or not, but it should be.
this is not a technical problem, so attempting to solve it with technology is futile - in fact, will probably make it worse because now you have extra technology to fiddle with and configure and become distracted by.
it is a self-discipline problem. solve it by developing your self-discipline.
punching and drowning the one jerk is unlikely - he'll be the only one on the lifeboat with a life-vest and his own personal one-person inflatable raft. he'll also have a gun and several hired thugs on the boat - enough to keep the rest of you in line.
when it all goes to shit he'll be OK, and he might let one or two of you peasants hang on to the sides as long as you acknowledge that he's the boss. Out of the 99 others on the original life-boat, enough will fight and murder the others for the priviledge of licking his arse that he's guaranteed to have more serfs than he needs. the rest can drown.
I don't give a damn about 4K TV but i want it to become stupidly popular because a 4K TV LCD panel is also a 4K computer monitor, and mainstream purchases of 1080p TVs are why 1080p monitors are less than half the price of 16:10 1920x1200 monitors.
"good enough for TV" is a huge limiting factor on the affordability of high-resolution monitors, so if the plebs think they need 4K to watch TV then that's just fabulous.
"They" has been used as a singular pronoun in English since at least the 15th century, and can easily be found in examples of all kinds of writing - including novels, plays, essays - ever since then. There has never been a time when they/their/them weren't used as singular pronouns.
The only reason it's controversial is because of reactionaries using bogus "it's not proper English" arguments as an excuse to refuse using gender-neutral terms, to mask their sexism - "I'm not sexist, I'm just a language pedant". Yeah, right.
This is what is wrong with corporations (and is also the fundamental flaw in american style libertarianism aka anarcho-capitalism) - the greedy bastards simply DO NOT GIVE A FUCK about the consequences of their actions, they just want a short-term boost to profits, no matter the cost to others.
They're not the ones who are going to be paying for it when people lose their limbs or organs or die horribly from MRSA, so it does not matter in the slightest.
We need a corporate death penalty for crimes like this - i.e. complete nationalisation when found guilty, and subject the now state-owned corp. to a charter requiring them to act solely as a non-profit in the public interest (so that the services/products they supplied are still supplied and especially so that the low-level employees don't suddenly find themselves unemployed); with all current and future copyrights and patents instantly and automatically public-domain, and with all existing contracts subject to immediate re-negotiation to align with the public-good and anti-exploitative rules of the new charter.
also criminal charges with enormous fines and long jail sentences for execs and board who knew (or had a duty to know but somehow conveniently didn't or can't remember) or authorised or perpetrated criminal behaviour.
in short - make the consequences of behaving like sociopathic arseholes utterly terrifying to the bastards. Nothing else will make them act even remotely civilised.
If this were found to be true, then no one could argue against the existence of God.
That's exactly what's wrong with religious thinking - or any other kind of magical thinking: the instant leap from "something weird has been observed" to "wahh! i don't understand" and then immediately to "god(*) must've dunnit".
fucking idiots.
the correct response is "more investigation is required".
the best moments in science have always come from someone thinking "that's odd..."
(*) which god, anyway? there's so many of the stupid imaginary fucking things, and so many minor variations of the same ones (each one "worth" torturing and murdering for), to choose from.
and don't forget the favourite wet-dream of paranoid psychopath survivalists everywhere - the coming zombie apocalypse.
it's better than most collapse-of-civilisation fantasies because it comes with a built-in reason for shooting (ex-)people in the head...survivalist cumshot!
How many people get away with saying that even though they work in country X and are paid in country X, that all their income is actually in Bermuda via Ireland and the Netherlands?
(where "country X" is the US, the UK, Australia, and probably every country where google, apple, and many other corporations do business)
Lying about the origin of your income is not the same thing as paying only the tax that you are strictly required to. it is tax evasion, it is fraud.
3(a) only requires that you give the source to anyone you distribute the binary to. The *ONLY* thing that the GPL says about *HOW* you are to give the source is that it is "...on a medium customarily used for software interchange".
It does not say that it must be on the same medium as the binary - e.g. it's perfectly legit to have a "Binary CD" and a "Source CD", ditto for a binary URL and a source URL (even if they're on different servers or use different protocols such as http vs ftp).
The intent of that qualifier is not to enable holier-than-stallman pedantry, it is to prevent someone from giving the source code in some useless or near-useless form such as a printout or on paper-tape or some similarly obsolete medium. As long as the source is given in some customary medium (i.e. usable without unusual equipment or onerous effort), it really does not matter.
Giving a web URL (even a password protected URL) satisfies that requirement as long as it is given to everyone you distribute a binary to.
I don't know if DosBox Turbo does that or not. if they do, then it's adequate. If not, then 3(b) is their only remaining option for satisfying the terms of the GPL.
The easiest way to comply is to simply make sure the sources are available, directly, at the same time, from the same server, as the binary, at the time the binary is distributed (i.e. downloaded).
3(a) is still possible, even for a binary distributed on google's play store.
a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
Providing a link to the modified sources with the binary suffices - a web URL *is* a "medium customarily used for software interchange".
The recipient is, of course, entitled to redistribute both source and binary under the terms of the GPL...maybe put it up on an alternative app store like FDroid.
It's probably worth checking FDroid and others to see if someone has already done that.
a mis-analysis of the data occurred so that for example little Suzy playing in the street was mis-identified as a racoon and classified as an "acceptable casualty" in damage mitigation.
even this scenario isn't very likely - it's not hard to imagine small transmitters (wearable, or embedded in children's clothing) to make it easier for automated cars to identify children.
i.e. an electronic version of a bright, reflective safety vest.
some parents already use GPS tracking and similar devices to keep track of their kids, and that's far more invasive of the kids' privacy.
these transmitters would probably be popular with adult pedestrians and cyclists too.
of course, kids being kids, they'll probably exploit their transmitters and invent new games like "fuck up the traffic flow".
it would probably make carjacking easier too - but a self-driving car could be remotely instructed to stop or drive to the nearest police station.....or just do that automatically if a specific RFID tag isn't within a few hundred metres.
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Blake's 7 was good 70s british sci-fi. it had crap special effects, but that really didn't matter (same as Dr Who before the recent BBC Wales reboot had the same crap special effects by pretty much the same team, but had much better stories - and far less dr-who-is-an-angsty-supernatural-action-hero crap)
I expect the remake will be trashy american magical fantasy with rayguns, just like almost all all american allegedly-"science fiction" TV & movies....anti-tech, anti-science, anti-intellectual garbage.
it'll be all magic crystals, positive affirmations and mystical nonsense - you can do it, Luke^H^H^H^HBlake - just stop thinking and switch off your mind and the magic will happen.
(i don't mind Fantasy - in fact, i like a good fantasy novel or movie - but i despise fantasy that's pretending to be SF. they're two completely different things, even if publishers and bookshops like to pretend they're the same)
what is it about software licensing that brings out the nutcases?
fuck off back to under your rock, troll.
your loony conspiracy theories aren't needed, aren't helping and certainly aren't wanted.
that's nice for you. I'm certain you don't have a clue what you're talking about.
you certainly don't know enough to be encouraging anyone to bet against an expensive lawsuit - which doesn't actually have to win in order to succeed, it just has to bankrupt you (in which case, it wins by default because you don't afford lawyers to defend yourself any more)
I wouldn't want to bet on that. Compiling and linking CDDL module source against the kernel's GPL source almost certainly creates a derived work (it's complicated but, in short: depends on whether it just uses header information or actually links in kernel code).
Distributing a CDDL source-code plus scripts package (e.g. a zfs-dkms package) which compiles the zfs kernel modules on the user's own machine as a result of the user's explicit action (i.e. to install zfs-dkms package) still creates a derivative work but because the user is NOT re-distributing that derivative, it does not violate the terms of the GPL.
The GPL only restricts distribution, it does not restrict usage...this is not a bug in the GPL, it is a design feature...it's the way it's supposed to work.
Good luck to them - that's not a legal risk i'd want to take. Any one of the kernel's many contributors could be offended enough to sue.
The greater risk is Oracle seeing an excuse to sue - they're a huge corporate with a highly-competitive no-holds-barred attitude, lots of money and attack-lawyers on staff, and they're not only the owners of the ZFS copyright, they're also contributors to the kernel.
Huge corporates care less about bad publicity and PR backlash than most people think, they care only as much as it has the ability to have a sustained long-term effect on their bottom-line....and even then they only care if they've got a mass-market product that's vulnerable to mass boycott, or their activities bring on the ire of one of the large, mainstream activist groups.
The risk of annoying geeks with a low-profile (no children killed or baby animals tortured or rivers being polluted or particular group of people being discriminated against) issue like software licensing really won't stop them. We're not Oracle's target market, anyway - at best we're useful-but-optional marketing auxilliaries to provide some "geek cred" for their product....their target market is other corporations.
A zfs-dkms module package is also possible, which automates the compile and install of the kernel module.
There are un-official packages for ubuntu and debian already which do this (spl-dkms and zfs-dkms for the kernel modules, plus some other packages for libs and utilities) - this is how i run zfs-on-linux on my debian systems: I git pull the source repo for dajhorn's ubuntu packages and rebuild them for debian. Only one minor edit is needed to pkg-zfs/debian/control, change the dependancy on 'zfs-grub' to 'zfs-grub | grub'....since I don't boot from ZFS this works well for me. I think it would work any because the grub package in debian has zfs support built in. Once they're built I can install them with 'dpkg -i'....they install with as little trouble as any other package (they just take longer because they have to be compiled against the current kernel-header package). if the dkms packages were apt-gettable, it would be even easier.
There's no legal impediment to such packages being officially in debian (which already has similar dkms packages for other free-but-not-GPL-compatible modules, and debian even has some xxxx-dkms packages in non-free for nvidia and fglrx and similar non-free kernel modules).
As long as the kernel and ZFS are distributed not as a combined work but separately which the end-user has to combine themselves, then there is no derivative being distributed (the GPL's goal is not to prevent users from exercising their freedom to use software as they please, its goal is to prevent GPL code being distributed embedded in proprietary software)
BTW, debian also already has a zfs-fuse package which contains the CDDL zfs code plus dual-licensed GPL2 and CDDL packaging scripts. Debian also has a Debian GNU/kfreeBSD port which can have zfs natively without any licensing issues to work around (CDDL is compatible with BSD license, but not with GPL)
Other distros tend to care less about the niceties of adhering to licenses than debian does so may take some short-cuts - but my bet is that they'll do something very similar to the above to avoid giving Oracle any excuse for suing them.
no, it demonstrates the danger of allowing corporations to limit national sovereignty by lobbying for and getting so-called "Free Trade Agreements".
Every single one of them is designed not to promote or encourage trade but to restrict the ability of governments of the signing nations to make laws or policies that interfere with corporate interests.
which is why they're giving nice-sounding names like "Free Trade Agreement" rather than "Stealth Takeover of Government Act"
yes. the emergent behaviour of complex systems can indeed seem like intelligent life with a mind of it's own. and it really doesn't matter if it really is intelligent life or if it just simulates it - the results are the same.
"professionalism" requires people to suppress their humanity (with specific individuals doing so to a greater or lesser degree) and act in the interests of their employing corporation. the peons keep their heads down and do what they're told...or else they quit or get sacked or get stuck in dead-end roles with little or no autonomy. the consequences of losing your job, your income, and even your medical insurance (in barabaric countries without national health insurance) is an enormous incentive to just follow orders.
also, the hierarchical structure combined with the prevailing cultural mythology of dog-eat-dog greed-is-good and greed-justifies-anything capitalism tends to insure that sociopaths and psychopaths tend to rise to the top and to other positions of power and authority within the organisation.
i bet you could get the recruiters to stop harassing you if you told them that you'd love to be trained at their expense so you'd have valuable and useful military skills when you join the american communist revolutionary army.
or just ask them if you'd get in trouble for accidentally shooting an officer - you want to know because you're a bit clumsy and accident-prone when it comes to hierarchies and saluting and the like.
corporations are NOT "just a group of people", any more than people are "just a group of cells".
corporations are an artificial life form (that exist within the eco-system of laws) that happen to use people as components in a similar manner to the way people have cells as components- their needs and their objectives are as removed from the needs of their human components as our needs and objectives are as removed from those of our individual cells.
and, just as us humans adapt our ecosystem to suit ourselves, corporations do the same - with the same consequences to everything/everyone else (i.e. us) that depends upon or is affected by the legal eco-system... ...and their adaptions of their ecosystem are done with as much concern and care for us humans as we show for an ant colony when we clear ground to build a home.
and the worst thing is that we humans made them and let them loose.
we dont need to be scared of the science-fictional prospect of artificial intelligence like SkyNet - we've already created hostile and inimical artificial "life" and it has escaped our control with real world consequences happening right now that are just as deadly.
even if you purchased the phone with a service agreement you should still be able to use the phone on another network.
locking the phone and the legal obligations of a service contract are two separate issues.
i.e. regardless of whether the phone is locked or not, or whether you're using it on the original telco service or not, you're still obligated to pay your monthly fees for the original contract (or paying whatever early termination fee you agreed to).
The sole purpose of locking the phone in that situation is to be an anti-competitive obstacle to using your own property (the phone) as you see fit once the service agreement has expired or been paid out.
i don't know if such anti-competitive behaviour is illegal in the US or not, but it should be.
this is not a technical problem, so attempting to solve it with technology is futile - in fact, will probably make it worse because now you have extra technology to fiddle with and configure and become distracted by.
it is a self-discipline problem. solve it by developing your self-discipline.
correct. you check the kitchen to see if he's stolen any condiments to go with the lion.
punching and drowning the one jerk is unlikely - he'll be the only one on the lifeboat with a life-vest and his own personal one-person inflatable raft. he'll also have a gun and several hired thugs on the boat - enough to keep the rest of you in line.
when it all goes to shit he'll be OK, and he might let one or two of you peasants hang on to the sides as long as you acknowledge that he's the boss. Out of the 99 others on the original life-boat, enough will fight and murder the others for the priviledge of licking his arse that he's guaranteed to have more serfs than he needs. the rest can drown.
I don't give a damn about 4K TV but i want it to become stupidly popular because a 4K TV LCD panel is also a 4K computer monitor, and mainstream purchases of 1080p TVs are why 1080p monitors are less than half the price of 16:10 1920x1200 monitors.
"good enough for TV" is a huge limiting factor on the affordability of high-resolution monitors, so if the plebs think they need 4K to watch TV then that's just fabulous.
"They" has been used as a singular pronoun in English since at least the 15th century, and can easily be found in examples of all kinds of writing - including novels, plays, essays - ever since then. There has never been a time when they/their/them weren't used as singular pronouns.
It's about as "traditional" as it gets,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they
The only reason it's controversial is because of reactionaries using bogus "it's not proper English" arguments as an excuse to refuse using gender-neutral terms, to mask their sexism - "I'm not sexist, I'm just a language pedant". Yeah, right.
This is what is wrong with corporations (and is also the fundamental flaw in american style libertarianism aka anarcho-capitalism) - the greedy bastards simply DO NOT GIVE A FUCK about the consequences of their actions, they just want a short-term boost to profits, no matter the cost to others.
They're not the ones who are going to be paying for it when people lose their limbs or organs or die horribly from MRSA, so it does not matter in the slightest.
We need a corporate death penalty for crimes like this - i.e. complete nationalisation when found guilty, and subject the now state-owned corp. to a charter requiring them to act solely as a non-profit in the public interest (so that the services/products they supplied are still supplied and especially so that the low-level employees don't suddenly find themselves unemployed); with all current and future copyrights and patents instantly and automatically public-domain, and with all existing contracts subject to immediate re-negotiation to align with the public-good and anti-exploitative rules of the new charter.
also criminal charges with enormous fines and long jail sentences for execs and board who knew (or had a duty to know but somehow conveniently didn't or can't remember) or authorised or perpetrated criminal behaviour.
in short - make the consequences of behaving like sociopathic arseholes utterly terrifying to the bastards. Nothing else will make them act even remotely civilised.
i would suggest getting a life.
i guess you're proud of having impressed some fifth-graders with your amazing super-power but, really, it's a pretty lame claim to fame.
fame is over-rated, and the desire for fame just marks you out to be a wanker - and a desperate one to be striving for such a trivial "achievement".
so what you're saying is that programmers need to stop being such fucking wusses that they put up with shit working conditions like 15 hour work days?
or maybe they should form a union.
That's exactly what's wrong with religious thinking - or any other kind of magical thinking: the instant leap from "something weird has been observed" to "wahh! i don't understand" and then immediately to "god(*) must've dunnit".
fucking idiots.
the correct response is "more investigation is required".
the best moments in science have always come from someone thinking "that's odd..."
(*) which god, anyway? there's so many of the stupid imaginary fucking things, and so many minor variations of the same ones (each one "worth" torturing and murdering for), to choose from.
and don't forget the favourite wet-dream of paranoid psychopath survivalists everywhere - the coming zombie apocalypse.
it's better than most collapse-of-civilisation fantasies because it comes with a built-in reason for shooting (ex-)people in the head...survivalist cumshot!
How many people get away with saying that even though they work in country X and are paid in country X, that all their income is actually in Bermuda via Ireland and the Netherlands?
(where "country X" is the US, the UK, Australia, and probably every country where google, apple, and many other corporations do business)
Lying about the origin of your income is not the same thing as paying only the tax that you are strictly required to. it is tax evasion, it is fraud.
Correct.
Wrong.
3(a) only requires that you give the source to anyone you distribute the binary to. The *ONLY* thing that the GPL says about *HOW* you are to give the source is that it is "...on a medium customarily used for software interchange".
It does not say that it must be on the same medium as the binary - e.g. it's perfectly legit to have a "Binary CD" and a "Source CD", ditto for a binary URL and a source URL (even if they're on different servers or use different protocols such as http vs ftp).
The intent of that qualifier is not to enable holier-than-stallman pedantry, it is to prevent someone from giving the source code in some useless or near-useless form such as a printout or on paper-tape or some similarly obsolete medium. As long as the source is given in some customary medium (i.e. usable without unusual equipment or onerous effort), it really does not matter.
Giving a web URL (even a password protected URL) satisfies that requirement as long as it is given to everyone you distribute a binary to.
I don't know if DosBox Turbo does that or not. if they do, then it's adequate. If not, then 3(b) is their only remaining option for satisfying the terms of the GPL.
"easiest" is not the same as "only".
3(a) is still possible, even for a binary distributed on google's play store.
Providing a link to the modified sources with the binary suffices - a web URL *is* a "medium customarily used for software interchange".
The recipient is, of course, entitled to redistribute both source and binary under the terms of the GPL...maybe put it up on an alternative app store like FDroid.
It's probably worth checking FDroid and others to see if someone has already done that.
even this scenario isn't very likely - it's not hard to imagine small transmitters (wearable, or embedded in children's clothing) to make it easier for automated cars to identify children.
i.e. an electronic version of a bright, reflective safety vest.
some parents already use GPS tracking and similar devices to keep track of their kids, and that's far more invasive of the kids' privacy.
these transmitters would probably be popular with adult pedestrians and cyclists too.
of course, kids being kids, they'll probably exploit their transmitters and invent new games like "fuck up the traffic flow".
it would probably make carjacking easier too - but a self-driving car could be remotely instructed to stop or drive to the nearest police station.....or just do that automatically if a specific RFID tag isn't within a few hundred metres.
this can also be used to remind people to participate in their daily Physical Jerks and the Two Minute Hate.