Right, I was breaking into two cases one, where your the author and one where your not. This whole conversation is about the following suggested copyleft text from the FSF for applying the GPL version to your program.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
What i'm saying is that if an author uses this scheme, somebody down the road can't say "I decided I'm using v3 so you owe me something" since you can still decide that your using version 2.
Your analogy is a little off since the original author is not bound by any license and even if your user chooses version 3, your still free to distribute under version two. nobody can make you do anything.
Now it could be possible that a later version could give a freedom away that you want to keep for yourself - that would be the only risk.
Someone at MIT could never take away rights as the end user could still opt to use GPL2 at their discretion - the FSF could only add more options to which the user could adopt by using the software as GPL3.
And I would hardly call the tablature thats available today "sheet music". They are mostly created by-ear and the chords are voiced to the liking of whomever figured it out. This is hardly an equal product to actual guitar tab books.
For thoose who aren't guitarists, Tab looks like this:
All I can say is thank god for NPR. Contrary to popular belief, i find their news to balanced and informative belief (go listen to their coverage of the '04 election - you'll find they cover bush just as much as kerry and both in postive and negative lights. If anything, I thought they covered Bush more favorably - and i'm not a Bush fan to say the least....)
NPR picks stories that are just fascinating. Stuff you always wanted to hear about - you just didn't know it yet. I keep telling my friends if they could make a news channel with NPR's standards, I'd be a happy man. Not to mention, the weekend fare is quite entertaining - big fan of "Wait Wait, dont' tell me" and "A Prarie Home Companion", "Car Talk", "Echos", "Travels Through Space", etc, etc, etc. I make a little donation every year and they bring me so much.
Really whats the difference tho? The theory of evolution says the same forces are at work whether we're talking macrosopically (say, a germ that gains the ability to spread easily to between humans will be more successful at being the best germ it can be then the germ that does not, hence giving that germ an upper leg to become the predominant species present) or an anmial that develops the abliity to respond to light (see, may have you) is at an advantage over species that cannot in some habitats.
Its really all the same thing...
They put no restrictions on your using the software, you just have no other way to legally copy it.
5. You are not required to accept this License, since you have not signed it. However, nothing else grants you permission to modify or distribute the Program or its derivative works. These actions are prohibited by law if you do not accept this License. Therefore, by modifying or distributing the Program (or any work based on the Program), you indicate your acceptance of this License to do so, and all its terms and conditions for copying, distributing or modifying the Program or works based on it.
I became a Ruby developer at a financial firm about a month ago. My past expereince had been in PHP for this type of coding - let me say that I am impressed. Not only is it incredibly easy to pick up but you really can create full fledged applications in almost no time. ActiveRecord is what makes it so versitle, and I highly reccomend anyone who hasn't given it a try to actually try it...
I for one enjoy Morning Edition and All things considered. Despire what people say, I just don't seem them as being that biased. Go listen to their election coveraege - if anything I thought Bush was getting more coverage...
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The bass might lead to downloading less pr0n!
Ever heard of CentOS?
What i'm saying is that if an author uses this scheme, somebody down the road can't say "I decided I'm using v3 so you owe me something" since you can still decide that your using version 2.
Your analogy is a little off since the original author is not bound by any license and even if your user chooses version 3, your still free to distribute under version two. nobody can make you do anything. Now it could be possible that a later version could give a freedom away that you want to keep for yourself - that would be the only risk.
Someone at MIT could never take away rights as the end user could still opt to use GPL2 at their discretion - the FSF could only add more options to which the user could adopt by using the software as GPL3.
Actually, Rails works fine with Postgres, using it here all the time...
Ha..i wondered after i posted if someone would pick up that my numbering was off. I noticed it as soon as I hit submit...
And I would hardly call the tablature thats available today "sheet music". They are mostly created by-ear and the chords are voiced to the liking of whomever figured it out. This is hardly an equal product to actual guitar tab books.
For thoose who aren't guitarists, Tab looks like this:
---0----------
---0----------
---1--2------
---2--2------
---2--2------
---0----------
This would be an E chord followed by an A chord if your playing along at home.
The numbers represent frets to push down on and the lines represent which strings to pluck.
There's no timing and is far from ideal.
All I can say is thank god for NPR. Contrary to popular belief, i find their news to balanced and informative belief (go listen to their coverage of the '04 election - you'll find they cover bush just as much as kerry and both in postive and negative lights. If anything, I thought they covered Bush more favorably - and i'm not a Bush fan to say the least....) NPR picks stories that are just fascinating. Stuff you always wanted to hear about - you just didn't know it yet. I keep telling my friends if they could make a news channel with NPR's standards, I'd be a happy man. Not to mention, the weekend fare is quite entertaining - big fan of "Wait Wait, dont' tell me" and "A Prarie Home Companion", "Car Talk", "Echos", "Travels Through Space", etc, etc, etc. I make a little donation every year and they bring me so much.
Lets see... Where have a read about this before? hmmm....
WOW! The media has discovered VPN's
Really whats the difference tho? The theory of evolution says the same forces are at work whether we're talking macrosopically (say, a germ that gains the ability to spread easily to between humans will be more successful at being the best germ it can be then the germ that does not, hence giving that germ an upper leg to become the predominant species present) or an anmial that develops the abliity to respond to light (see, may have you) is at an advantage over species that cannot in some habitats. Its really all the same thing...
Nobody is to stone anyone until I say so - even if they do say JAHOVA. (i know - bad spelling)
ssia
Yes, and Letterman opens the bit as "Tonight's top ten list"
If conservatives don't believe in Evolution, then why are they so worried about bird flu? :-)
Not quite...
They put no restrictions on your using the software, you just have no other way to legally copy it.
5. You are not required to accept this License, since you have not signed it. However, nothing else grants you permission to modify or distribute the Program or its derivative works. These actions are prohibited by law if you do not accept this License. Therefore, by modifying or distributing the Program (or any work based on the Program), you indicate your acceptance of this License to do so, and all its terms and conditions for copying, distributing or modifying the Program or works based on it.
PUFF PUFF GIVE Maaaaaaan...
I became a Ruby developer at a financial firm about a month ago. My past expereince had been in PHP for this type of coding - let me say that I am impressed. Not only is it incredibly easy to pick up but you really can create full fledged applications in almost no time. ActiveRecord is what makes it so versitle, and I highly reccomend anyone who hasn't given it a try to actually try it...
I for one enjoy Morning Edition and All things considered. Despire what people say, I just don't seem them as being that biased. Go listen to their election coveraege - if anything I thought Bush was getting more coverage...
If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.
Little Johnny was a boy. He isn't anymore. For what he thought was H20 Was H2S04
Ha...
don't forget getting a tatoo, shaving, or coming in contact with semen.
Leviticus is the best...
What's next? Bottled air?
Nope, canned from planet Druidia....
AHEM....
Even after Clinton's $715 million dollar cut, thats still, $17B BILLION in the 1995 budget when you adjust for inflation into 2004 dollars
God, I wish we had clinton back instead of this idiot.