My understanding is that US copyright law has no method of restricting your right to use a program - it is copyright law and is only triggered by the act of making copys. Most software "licences" include a termination of usage rights clause, but most software licences are actually contracts, hence the requirment for a click-through signature.
The GPL is a true copyright licence and therefore is silent on usage rights - once you have received a copy of the program, you do not need any additonal permission to run it. I can choose not to accept the GPL, and that does not affect my rights to use the program, however without accepting the GPL I cannot modify or distribute 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.
Most Europeans feel that some of the stuff that people say in the US is abjectly abhorrent and that by hiding behind a free speech clause they are then propagating hate. Perhaps this is one of the reasons that there is so much racial tension over there.
The major advantage however, is that all these things are out in the open. In Britain we seem to think that by silencing abhorrent speach we are dealing with the root cause of the problem, instead of just brushing it under the carpet. I'd much rather have it out in the open where people can argue against it, instead of having people who think like that just talking to other who agree with them.
As part of the purchase agreement for their fabulous - patented - ink cartridge technology, you entered into a contract with them to return the ink cartridge to them after use. If you violate that contract, your patent licence is terminated.
If you send the cartridge to a remanufacturer and have it refilled, you will then be using their patented technology in violation of your licence to do so - and the remanufacturer will be guilty of inducing this infringment.
Monopoly was patented by Charles Darrow in 1935 (patent obviously has expired) - source Wikipedia . The materials in the game were (and are) also copyrighted, but the rules/concept were patented.
As the other post states, as long as I avoided using any actually copyrighted material, and didn't infringe the trademark, I would be... probably sued out of existence:) but if I could afford to take it to trial I should win. Monopoly was originaly patented, but that must have expired a long time ago.
As I understand it they hotlinked to his game (which he wrote himself from TFA). Normal polite practice would be to link to his page hosting the game, hotlinking is both rude and stupid.
It's like someone on ebay hotlinking to your images from their auction - if your going to steal content, at least have the common courtesy to host it yourself.
I think what he did was both funny and fully justified, it might even inspire me to get round to redirecting hotlinked ebay images to a banner saying "FREE FED-EX SHIPPING ON THIS ORDER"
Lead the world in prison population per capita? Figures please?
not arguing with your main point, but the US's prison population per capita is huge - see this pdf from Britain's home office.
The United States has the highest prison population rate in the world, some 686 per 100,000
of the national population, followed by the Cayman Islands (664), Russia (638), Belarus (554),
Kazakhstan (522), Turkmenistan (489), Belize (459), Bahamas (447), Suriname (437) and
Dominica (420).
However, more than three-fifths of countries (62.5%) have rates below 150 per 100,000. (The
United Kingdom's rate of 139 per 100,000 of the national population places it above the midpoint
in the World List; it is now the highest among countries of the European Union.)
Check here for the Doomsday scenario - essentially warming causes a masive release of oceanic methane hydrate, which is itself a powerful greenhouse gas. It's a possible cause of the Permian-Triassic extinction event, which wiped out 90% of marine, and 70% of terrestrial life.
It certainly requires a different set of experience and skill than being a techy, but that doesn't make them smarter or necessarily worth more.
One of the benefits of having a capitalist system is that the market decides fair value - the market is prepared to pay more for capable CEOs than it is for capable techies. Sure that doesn't mean they are more valuable in some fuzzy moral sense, but in a terms of how much money they are worth (we are talking about saleries here), it does.
I'd read some of the comments in that article - a lot of knowledgable people on Groklaw disagreed with PJ's analysis - esentially she doesn't seem to take account of how prior art works in a first-to-file system.
Not only that, its from a murdering, backstabbing bastard of a fictional character in a video game. Never trust Pravin Lal - he's just lulling you into a false sense of security while he preps his Planet Busters...
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Any chance of a link to the solution you found for the autoplay thing? It's been irritating me for a while too..
I think this is where "you have the right to hire a lawyer to defend yourself" rears its ugly head.
The take in the telegraph artical seems to be the generally accepted story, do you have any sources to back up your version?
I'm pretty sure you've got that backward. France had previously sold Exocet to Argentina, when the war broke out they provided us with inteligence to help sabotage them - see this artical: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2F news%2F2002%2F03%2F13%2Fnot13.xml
Given that this can't have helped France's reputation as an arms manufacturer, we owe them a large favour.
These days you could probably sue the clark...
Just imagine the sort of quality they will get out of the thing once they try reversing the polartity of the flux converters.
Bollocks. Just to give you a third party view, he came across as remarkably restrained and polite, while you appear like a dick.
My understanding is that US copyright law has no method of restricting your right to use a program - it is copyright law and is only triggered by the act of making copys. Most software "licences" include a termination of usage rights clause, but most software licences are actually contracts, hence the requirment for a click-through signature.
The GPL is a true copyright licence and therefore is silent on usage rights - once you have received a copy of the program, you do not need any additonal permission to run it. I can choose not to accept the GPL, and that does not affect my rights to use the program, however without accepting the GPL I cannot modify or distribute it.
IANAL
Grammar Zealotes: please spare a non-english writer
/runs
I probably shouldn't say this, but it's spelt Zealots...
Most Europeans feel that some of the stuff that people say in the US is abjectly abhorrent and that by hiding behind a free speech clause they are then propagating hate. Perhaps this is one of the reasons that there is so much racial tension over there.
The major advantage however, is that all these things are out in the open. In Britain we seem to think that by silencing abhorrent speach we are dealing with the root cause of the problem, instead of just brushing it under the carpet. I'd much rather have it out in the open where people can argue against it, instead of having people who think like that just talking to other who agree with them.
As part of the purchase agreement for their fabulous - patented - ink cartridge technology, you entered into a contract with them to return the ink cartridge to them after use. If you violate that contract, your patent licence is terminated.
If you send the cartridge to a remanufacturer and have it refilled, you will then be using their patented technology in violation of your licence to do so - and the remanufacturer will be guilty of inducing this infringment.
Monopoly was patented by Charles Darrow in 1935 (patent obviously has expired) - source Wikipedia . The materials in the game were (and are) also copyrighted, but the rules/concept were patented.
As the other post states, as long as I avoided using any actually copyrighted material, and didn't infringe the trademark, I would be... probably sued out of existence :) but if I could afford to take it to trial I should win. Monopoly was originaly patented, but that must have expired a long time ago.
Assuming he reimplemented the game from scratch then he would own the copyright on his version.
As I understand it they hotlinked to his game (which he wrote himself from TFA). Normal polite practice would be to link to his page hosting the game, hotlinking is both rude and stupid.
It's like someone on ebay hotlinking to your images from their auction - if your going to steal content, at least have the common courtesy to host it yourself.
I think what he did was both funny and fully justified, it might even inspire me to get round to redirecting hotlinked ebay images to a banner saying "FREE FED-EX SHIPPING ON THIS ORDER"
not arguing with your main point, but the US's prison population per capita is huge - see this pdf from Britain's home office.
Check here for the Doomsday scenario - essentially warming causes a masive release of oceanic methane hydrate, which is itself a powerful greenhouse gas. It's a possible cause of the Permian-Triassic extinction event, which wiped out 90% of marine, and 70% of terrestrial life.
It certainly requires a different set of experience and skill than being a techy, but that doesn't make them smarter or necessarily worth more.
One of the benefits of having a capitalist system is that the market decides fair value - the market is prepared to pay more for capable CEOs than it is for capable techies. Sure that doesn't mean they are more valuable in some fuzzy moral sense, but in a terms of how much money they are worth (we are talking about saleries here), it does.
Only if you're marrying a weather man and he set the date.
I dunno, maybe a bit of classical music would be better. Schubert's Unfinished Symphony would seem to fit..
I'd read some of the comments in that article - a lot of knowledgable people on Groklaw disagreed with PJ's analysis - esentially she doesn't seem to take account of how prior art works in a first-to-file system.
*sigh* that's the problem with Linux, it's got all the functionality you could ever want, but the UI sucks..
Wait.. Never mind
Read that as at risk patents?
Not only that, its from a murdering, backstabbing bastard of a fictional character in a video game. Never trust Pravin Lal - he's just lulling you into a false sense of security while he preps his Planet Busters...