Well, not that many people are probably this honest, but if the seller were to actually delete thier local copy of the songs so the only remaining copy was on the iPod, how is this any different that selling a used CD? The music is being transferred from one person to another. Also, regarding an earlier post about not being able to remove songs from your iPod... It's actually quite easy. There's tons of software out there that does it.
I was under the impression that if you used GPL'd tools to build your software, your software kind of inherited the GPL. That's why some people refer to the GPL as being a "viral" licence". I guess I'll have to re-read the licence more carefully/fully. Perhaps this is a common misconception?
that are complaining about the GPL and how wrong and how business unfriendly it is for the GPL to mandate the release of source code. You know what? Those are the terms of the licence. If you don't like the terms - don't use the GPL as your license. Use closed source tools to build your close source program and use a closed source licence. Problem solved. But, if you want to use and benefit from open source tools that other people put hard work into by not having to pay for the proprietary ones, then having your source inherit the GPL is the price you pay. There is plenty of software out there though, that runs on Linux - including kernel modules - that is closed source. NVidia's driver is just one example. They shouldn't have used the licence if they weren't prepared to comply with it's terms. There are any number of more business friendly licences out there.
Actually, QWERTY wasn't designed around the formation of words in the english language. It's quite the opposite. QWERTY was designed to be easy on the typwriter, not the typist. See http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_248.html.
Kind of like having the freedom to yell fire in a theater right? It should be totally legal - afterall we have free speech in this country. Yes, it could be abused, but thats my pergoative...
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Well, not that many people are probably this honest, but if the seller were to actually delete thier local copy of the songs so the only remaining copy was on the iPod, how is this any different that selling a used CD? The music is being transferred from one person to another. Also, regarding an earlier post about not being able to remove songs from your iPod ... It's actually quite easy. There's tons of software out there that does it.
I was under the impression that if you used GPL'd tools to build your software, your software kind of inherited the GPL. That's why some people refer to the GPL as being a "viral" licence". I guess I'll have to re-read the licence more carefully/fully. Perhaps this is a common misconception?
that are complaining about the GPL and how wrong and how business unfriendly it is for the GPL to mandate the release of source code. You know what? Those are the terms of the licence. If you don't like the terms - don't use the GPL as your license. Use closed source tools to build your close source program and use a closed source licence. Problem solved. But, if you want to use and benefit from open source tools that other people put hard work into by not having to pay for the proprietary ones, then having your source inherit the GPL is the price you pay. There is plenty of software out there though, that runs on Linux - including kernel modules - that is closed source. NVidia's driver is just one example. They shouldn't have used the licence if they weren't prepared to comply with it's terms. There are any number of more business friendly licences out there.
Actually, QWERTY wasn't designed around the formation of words in the english language. It's quite the opposite. QWERTY was designed to be easy on the typwriter, not the typist. See http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_248.html.
Kind of like having the freedom to yell fire in a theater right? It should be totally legal - afterall we have free speech in this country. Yes, it could be abused, but thats my pergoative...