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Article #1444Re: KDE v. Gnome
From: Anders Wegge Jakobsen
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 00:00
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 00:00
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On Mon, 5 Oct 1998 10:29:22 +0100, Jason Clifford <jason@dlsl.demon.co.uk> said: JC> In article <m31zoodpd3.fsf@obelix.wegge.dk>, Anders Wegge Jakobsen JC> <wegge@wegge.dk> writes >> You've read some pretty weak licenses then. Most, if not all, of >> those I've become aquainted with, has tried to remove my right to >> modify/debug/dechiper the given product. JC> Remove your right? You never had any right to he software in the JC> first place. The licnese specifically grants you such rights as JC> you may have. Yes, my *right* to decide how, given a set of circumstances, I want to perform a task. This *is* a basic human right. >> Not quite. The margin notes in the book are in a form that is >> readablke by the same means and at the same time as the book is >> read, ie. used. The typical EULA tries to remove any such right of >> modifications, including such trivial changes as change hardcoded >> path settings with a hex-editor. JC> You are NOT entitles to make changes to the content of a book JC> (ie. the copyright material). Writing to the margins does not JC> constitute such a change. SImilarly you are free to write whatever JC> you wish to the MEDIA upon which software is distributed but not JC> to the software unless speciically permitted by the license That's precisely what I'm not allowed to. I might be allowed to erase the entire media, and then use it as I see fit, but that's quite different from the scribbled notes in the margin pf a book. I think that you overlooked the key phrase: "by the same means, and at the same time". -- /Wegge
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1103af,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gid1103af,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,942a0596db2b8174 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-Thread: f4bda,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4bda,public X-Google-Thread: 10d8ad,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d8ad,public X-Google-Thread: fcfb9,942a0596db2b8174 X-Google-Attributes: gidfcfb9,public From: Anders Wegge Jakobsen <wegge@wegge.dk> Subject: Re: KDE v. Gnome Date: 1998/10/05 Message-ID: <m33e93196f.fsf@obelix.wegge.dk> X-Deja-AN: 397894575 References: <873e9hret2.fsf@ivm.de> <6uipd0$oj8$1@winter.news.erols.com> <87zpbmkhdn.fsf@ivm.de> <kbCveHAOyWD2EwdN@dlsl.demon.co.uk> <Pine.SOL.3.91.980927140803.10597B-100000@howard> <m3af3knl8m.fsf@c26469-a.clnvl1.ct.home.com> <6up86o$t23$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> <9nQpxDAYqKE2EwlY@dlsl.demon.co.uk> <m37lyls7gl.fsf@c26469-a.clnvl1.ct.home.com> <7W849EAptrE2EwXO@dlsl.demon.co.uk> <6uuqch$mie$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> <GHjnJHASQKF2Ewpf@dlsl.demon.co.uk> <6v33p4$jqh$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> <Db9muEAqVWF2EwIG@dlsl.demon.co.uk> <m3n27dmzmq.fsf@obelix.wegge.dk> <SalyuSAJBnF2Ewa7@dlsl.demon.co.uk> <m3emspmohc.fsf@obelix.wegge.dk> <3616cc6e.542425@news.u-net.com> <m3ww6glop7.fsf@obelix.wegge.dk> <DZ4G+BA8U0F2EwIs@dlsl.demon.co.uk> <m31zoodpd3.fsf@obelix.wegge.dk> <SEoS5BAyFJG2Ewjd@dlsl.demon.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Complaints-To: news@daimi.aau.dk X-Trace: xinwen.daimi.aau.dk 907590773 14342 255.255.255.255 (5 Oct 1998 12:32:53 GMT) Organization: Trolderiet Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106) NNTP-Posting-Date: 5 Oct 1998 12:32:53 GMT Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss