On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 04:34:35PM +0100, Tarquin Mills wrote:
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Peter Naulls wrote:
Tarquin Mills <email address snipped by me> wrote:
Paul Vigay wrote:
skok wrote:
That does not say much, does it? Basicly, he has reasons for not updating his software, but he will not say what those reasons are...
So what? It's his software, and his reasons! End of story really!
This a strange view for a free software advocate (JF) to take, as the one of the points of free software is that it is owned by everyone, i.e. the Creative Commons.
No, this is naive in the extreme. In particular, the software under the GPL very much belongs to the copyright holder. Other licences have variations on this.
To quote the Anglia Linux User Group the free software movement is against copyright and the GPL is just an anti-copyright copyright (quinophex). One of the points of the GPL is that the source code is freely available and can be modified and redistributed. Justin Fletcher is not doing this with his software. BTW do not put my email address in usenet postings as this increases spamming.
Can I just ask what on earth this conversation is about? It appears that you are having a discussion about some software and the relevant licenses although this is not very clear and which forum, newsgroup, mailing list this is that you are posting in?
I would also like to know the source for your quote from me saying that the free software movement is against copyright and that the GPL is an anti-copyright copyright as I feel it may be a comment taken out of context. This link may be useful also http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#HowIGetCopyright one thing the GPL preserves is someones copyright, just because something is released as GPL does not make it "public domain".
May I also point out that Alug is a group of over 200 people not all of whom will share the same views as me on software copyright and software licenses (or indeed many other subjecty also). There are many different opinions here, if you are going to quote me in other forums then do not associate me with being an official voice of Alug as there is no such thing.
Adam