Why not? I am neither a US citizen nor resident but both EFF & FSF are quite happy to take my money. So why shouldn't GeekPAC accept funding from outside the USA?
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If I write an application to run on a desktop or server system running Linux, I can release it under whatever licence I like (subject to any restictions imposed by any libraries I may link with.) So why should an embedded system be any different? Granted, you would have to release under GPL (and thus offer the source for) the OS and any other GPL'd components (including any modifcations which may have made), but surely you could choose any licence you wish for applications you write in-house (again subject to any restrictions imposed by library linkage.)
The remote is needed so that "the Biscuit" can have a "fresh bowl".
Re:Needed: affordable self-cleaning public toilets
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In London there are both "normal" and handicap accessible. The "normal" ones require payment but I believe that the handicap ones just need a "RADAR" key (as do many other handicap facilities) not payment.
Which is different from almost every other licence. Licences allow you do something which would otherwise be illegal. Thus my ham radio licence allows me to transmit, a drivers licence allows you to drive a vehicle, a liquor licence allows a publican to sell alcohol etc. None of which would be permitted without the licence. So an EULA should, like the GPL, only grant rights which you would otherwise not have.
That just proves what many people already believe - that "the law is a ass".
Purchasing (or otherwise legally aquiring) a software "package" should automatically include the right to install and run that single copy. It should not need an EULA to allow the software to be run.
Why does it have to be a technical solution? There is no technical mechanism for determining TV or Radio viewing/listening figures but the industry seems to manage. So could the same techniques not be used for measuring webcasting audiences?
Yet, for linking to a library, you do not have to distribute the binary. When (dynamically) linking to library 'X' to provide functionality 'Y', there are (at least) 2 ways of looking at it. You could say that this makes your program a derivative of 'X'. Or you could say that 'X' is an extension to the operating system, which adds functionality 'Y', and that in order to run your program the user has to have enhanced his/her operating system by installing 'X'.
But if said IT staffers were to buy a couple of shares, then they could attend the AGM and ask (the top PHBs) why the company was wasting shareholders money on expensive software when cheaper or even free alternatives are just as good, if not in some cases better.
If the networks are against PVRs it rather strange the Sky, the UK Satellite network, provide their own PVR system (at extra charge) which allows you to record one programme while watching another.
Peer to peer is the important term. This seems to be exactly what the corporates (and possibly also governments) want to avoid. They want the client server model, where the comsumers can only access material which they provide.
Which is maybe why so much of the "milestone" software of the past was the creation of either a single developer or a team of no more than 3 or 4 developers.
Spammers may have tried suing blacklist operators, but have any innocent (non-spamming) victims who have also been blocked ever sued either the blacklist operators or the ISPs who use these list?
No matter how rich he is, re-purchasing the collection might not be very simple. Record companies have a nasty habit of "deleting" titles so that they can no longer be purchased new. So if you want to replace it you have a find it second hand.
Why not? Surely they are just as much "press" as broadcasters and newspapers. In fact they are probably closer to the "press" which existed at the time the constitution was drafter than the current corporate run media.
The Sanisettes (single person, unisex, automatic public toilets) in London, Paris, and other cities already do this.
Re:DMCA Does Not Depend on the Copyright Clause!
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Surely it does not apply to old works. The wording says "...access to a copyright...". So circumventing the protection to access a work on which copyright has expired (ie an old work) does not form an offence under the act.
I don't know what the granularity of zip codes is where you live, but my UK postcode narrows my address to just 11 houses, and some are even more specific.
I don't know what the answer is, but common sense would dictate that at a minimum you should be allowed to run the program on one system (at a time). In the days when systems only had floppy (or caseete) drives it was probably simpler as you ran the program from the distribution media rather than creating a "copy" on hard drive and running that.
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Why not? I am neither a US citizen nor resident but both EFF & FSF are quite happy to take my money. So why shouldn't GeekPAC accept funding from outside the USA?
If I write an application to run on a desktop or server system running Linux, I can release it under whatever licence I like (subject to any restictions imposed by any libraries I may link with.) So why should an embedded system be any different? Granted, you would have to release under GPL (and thus offer the source for) the OS and any other GPL'd components (including any modifcations which may have made), but surely you could choose any licence you wish for applications you write in-house (again subject to any restrictions imposed by library linkage.)
The remote is needed so that "the Biscuit" can have a "fresh bowl".
In London there are both "normal" and handicap accessible. The "normal" ones require payment but I believe that the handicap ones just need a "RADAR" key (as do many other handicap facilities) not payment.
So what would you tell someone when you have to take a pee.
You don't. You hold it until the call is ended then visit the loo before taking another call,
Which is different from almost every other licence. Licences allow you do something which would otherwise be illegal. Thus my ham radio licence allows me to transmit, a drivers licence allows you to drive a vehicle, a liquor licence allows a publican to sell alcohol etc. None of which would be permitted without the licence. So an EULA should, like the GPL, only grant rights which you would otherwise not have.
That just proves what many people already believe - that "the law is a ass".
Purchasing (or otherwise legally aquiring) a software "package" should automatically include the right to install and run that single copy. It should not need an EULA to allow the software to be run.
Why does it have to be a technical solution? There is no technical mechanism for determining TV or Radio viewing/listening figures but the industry seems to manage. So could the same techniques not be used for measuring webcasting audiences?
Yet, for linking to a library, you do not have to distribute the binary. When (dynamically) linking to library 'X' to provide functionality 'Y', there are (at least) 2 ways of looking at it. You could say that this makes your program a derivative of 'X'. Or you could say that 'X' is an extension to the operating system, which adds functionality 'Y', and that in order to run your program the user has to have enhanced his/her operating system by installing 'X'.
But if said IT staffers were to buy a couple of shares, then they could attend the AGM and ask (the top PHBs) why the company was wasting shareholders money on expensive software when cheaper or even free alternatives are just as good, if not in some cases better.
If the networks are against PVRs it rather strange the Sky, the UK Satellite network, provide their own PVR system (at extra charge) which allows you to record one programme while watching another.
Peer to peer is the important term. This seems to be exactly what the corporates (and possibly also governments) want to avoid. They want the client server model, where the comsumers can only access material which they provide.
Or get AntiVirus and other security software from sources outside the USA.
Maybe it might be better if domain names were treated as equivalent to phone numbers or street addresses.
Which is maybe why so much of the "milestone" software of the past was the creation of either a single developer or a team of no more than 3 or 4 developers.
Spammers may have tried suing blacklist operators, but have any innocent (non-spamming) victims who have also been blocked ever sued either the blacklist operators or the ISPs who use these list?
No matter how rich he is, re-purchasing the collection might not be very simple. Record companies have a nasty habit of "deleting" titles so that they can no longer be purchased new. So if you want to replace it you have a find it second hand.
The VM is greatly improved. It uses less swap, and swap is released rather than just accumlating.
Why not? Surely they are just as much "press" as broadcasters and newspapers. In fact they are probably closer to the "press" which existed at the time the constitution was drafter than the current corporate run media.
The Sanisettes (single person, unisex, automatic public toilets) in London, Paris, and other cities already do this.
Surely it does not apply to old works. The wording says "...access to a copyright...". So circumventing the protection to access a work on which copyright has expired (ie an old work) does not form an offence under the act.
I don't know what the granularity of zip codes is where you live, but my UK postcode narrows my address to just 11 houses, and some are even more specific.
I don't know what the answer is, but common sense would dictate that at a minimum you should be allowed to run the program on one system (at a time). In the days when systems only had floppy (or caseete) drives it was probably simpler as you ran the program from the distribution media rather than creating a "copy" on hard drive and running that.
Gimp may be the exception, but pico, emacs and grep predate Word, WordPad and Photoshop.
Though the nightly builds recently have been steadily increasing in size.