No one forces you to use code which has been licensed under GPLv3. But once you do, the specific morality of the GPLv3 is forced on you, and you cannot escape it.
Stop propagateing GPLv3 code
Wait 60 days
GPLv2 doesn't cut you that much slack. Does aany BSD style license? I'm not sure about a Microsoft EULA, but I strongly doubt it would...
Please tell me how any of this is unique to software patents.
Software business probably has the lowest barriers of entry of any patent sensitive field. One coder in his bedroom can be the entire company and still violate countless software patents wihout even knowing of their existance.
Why should I spend time inventing new algorithms, then?
Because you have a problem to solve. How many programers currently go over software patents to find a solution for their problem as opposed to find how to ovoid a patent problem?
It also seems the only reason you are so against it is because Microsoft is behind it.
No, I side with the sibling post, it's just as bad when Sony does it, I would recomend not to buy any consumer electronics from Sony anyway... But if you see a Walkman, run!
Why are you saying that to me, I know that, what I don't know if the voice chat part links into the Jin part, do you? The answer to that question however has no bearing on other aspects of the case, such as non-compilable source code and correct copyright information.
If Rabinovich's extended client is a Jin with built-in chat, then - sure - it's a derived work. However if it's a voice chat application that also supports chess playing, then it is not a derived work.
I fail to see the difference between Jin with built-in voice chat and voice chat with built-in Jin. Now if we'd have a stand a alone voice chat application that also happens to communicate with a slightly modified standalone Jin in a generalized way, the voice chat part wouldn't be a derived work, but from what I have read so far the coupling is much tighter.
Either way, even if the voice chat part isn't a derived work, this still not frees the distributor from other requirements under the GPL such as providing acurate copyright information and complete coresponding source code for the Jin derived part of the package.
Finally, regarding EULA - GPL is not a EULA. He can distribute the binary client under a restrictive license, but he has to provide the sources under GPL. Rabinovitch seems to be in non-compliance here as well.
How do you come to the conclusion that you can distibute binaries under a restrictive license just because the GPL is not an EULA? The GPL is a distribution license, meaning that without it (lacking other agreements) you can't distribute the source code nor derivative works, like binaries without agreeing to it. And as it happens the GPL forbids adding restrictions to GPLed code and derived works of GPLed code, even in the case of mere aggregation (such as GPLed game engine and EULAed game content) the distributor has a duty to inform the receivers of their rights under the GPL for the GPLed part(s) of the distributed package, he certainly has no right to add restrictions to the GPLed part.
I'm not. While individual posters often have poor understanding of copyright, trademark and patent law, on the whole Slashdot seems quite well informed compared to other online forums that do not focus exclusively on legal issues.
When was the last time developers of any mass market proprietary software have taken full responsibility of for their work?
Greater user involvment in bug hunting is a core feature of OSS development, if you aren't ready to provide developers with information about the bug or test different versions of the software you should consider not reporting at all. Most FOSS projects don't have dedicated QA staff and a variety of hardware and software--reporting vague problems they can't reproduce and not providing specific information only wastes their time.
What he described doesn't require PESEL to be secret, in fact I doubt the Polish would be stupid enough to use a number you give left and right (if it's anything like the Latvian version) as the sole mechanism for identification, that's what the snail mail he mentioned is for--the PESEL in this case only serves as a "hash" for a snail mail address.
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The guy got it wrong. If you haven't read my post, you shouldn't comment. I never claimed he got it right.
You claimed he didn't get it wrong.
If you read my post and still feel superior because you can point out where one person was wrong about one thing, then reread the post.
Your suggestion to "donate your sexual organs to science or medicine" wasn't an convincing argument to stop feeling something I didn't feel. We aren't talking about "one person" we are talking about Theodore Fulton Stevens, United States Senator. We aren't talking about his opinion on life, the universe, and everything, we are talking aobut his performance in a job that directly influences all persons accessing the internet in the US and indirectly the rest of the wired world. I'm not feeling superior, sad if anything.
Obviously you don't understand plumbing as well as you claim to understand networking.
I understand that a data packet is more like a truck then a series of tubes is like a network.
Again, if you feel you are a superior human being because you know this one guy was wrong about one topic, go donate your naughty bits to someone who can get some use out of them. Hopefully people with a mindset that "oh, the old guy is wrong! I'm so cool to be the 8798th person to point it out on/. it hurts!" will never breed anyway, because the kids of those people will likely be just as fucked in the head if not moreso.
A firmly superior tone suggesting to not act so superior... Anyway this isn't about feeling superior, it's about people making laws about things they don't understand all that well or at all. Beeing the 8798th person to agresively defend (if you can call attacking people on slashdot a defense) a lawmaker who hasn't done his homework is nothing to be proud of either.
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GPLv2 doesn't cut you that much slack. Does aany BSD style license? I'm not sure about a Microsoft EULA, but I strongly doubt it would...
It must also be a definition of desktop with which I am unfamilar.
No, some people think that paychecks are dinosaurs.
Why are you saying that to me, I know that, what I don't know if the voice chat part links into the Jin part, do you? The answer to that question however has no bearing on other aspects of the case, such as non-compilable source code and correct copyright information.
Either way, even if the voice chat part isn't a derived work, this still not frees the distributor from other requirements under the GPL such as providing acurate copyright information and complete coresponding source code for the Jin derived part of the package.
I'm not. While individual posters often have poor understanding of copyright, trademark and patent law, on the whole Slashdot seems quite well informed compared to other online forums that do not focus exclusively on legal issues.
And if all that fails you are still free to hack the kernel appart and put it together around your product.
This also works about the same offline, but the people it works with just aren't the ones a shy geek would like to spend much time with.
Let me fix that:
*Woosh*
-=(J) <-- Joke
Lameness filter
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When was the last time developers of any mass market proprietary software have taken full responsibility of for their work?
Greater user involvment in bug hunting is a core feature of OSS development, if you aren't ready to provide developers with information about the bug or test different versions of the software you should consider not reporting at all. Most FOSS projects don't have dedicated QA staff and a variety of hardware and software--reporting vague problems they can't reproduce and not providing specific information only wastes their time.
What he described doesn't require PESEL to be secret, in fact I doubt the Polish would be stupid enough to use a number you give left and right (if it's anything like the Latvian version) as the sole mechanism for identification, that's what the snail mail he mentioned is for--the PESEL in this case only serves as a "hash" for a snail mail address.
Did I ask what you did to circumvent the problem?
The menu opens fine on a 450MHz Celeron with 256MB of RAM.