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Article #1480Re: KDE v. Gnome
From: Anders Wegge Jakobsen
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1998 00:00
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1998 00:00
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On Sun, 4 Oct 1998 10:51:56 +0100, Jason Clifford <jason@dlsl.demon.co.uk> said: JC> In article <m3ww6glop7.fsf@obelix.wegge.dk>, Anders Wegge Jakobsen JC> <wegge@wegge.dk> writes >> When was the last time you bought a book, and had to agree that you >> wouldn't scribble notes in it's margin? >> >> The only implication of copyright, is that I cannot buy a >> copyrighted work, and then claim I created it myself. Any other >> restriction is standing on very soft grond, legally speaking. JC> What about the main restricion tha you may not reproduce the work JC> or publicly broadcast it without the consent of the author? That JC> is the essence of a software license. 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> The margins of a book are not a part of the copyright work. You JC> are free, if you choose to do so, to write to the media that JC> software is supplied upon which is exactly the same as making JC> notes on the margins of a book. 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. -- /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: 10d8ad,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d8ad,public X-Google-Thread: fcfb9,942a0596db2b8174 X-Google-Attributes: gidfcfb9,public X-Google-Thread: f4bda,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4bda,public From: Anders Wegge Jakobsen <wegge@wegge.dk> Subject: Re: KDE v. Gnome Date: 1998/10/04 Message-ID: <m31zoodpd3.fsf@obelix.wegge.dk> X-Deja-AN: 397708230 References: <873e9hret2.fsf@ivm.de> <87sohgzh44.fsf@ivm.de> <FWc39EA3TLD2Ewp3@dlsl.demon.co.uk> <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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Complaints-To: news@daimi.aau.dk X-Trace: xinwen.daimi.aau.dk 907534228 20665 255.255.255.255 (4 Oct 1998 20:50:28 GMT) Organization: Trolderiet Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106) NNTP-Posting-Date: 4 Oct 1998 20:50:28 GMT Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss