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Article #1776Re: KDE v. Gnome
From: Axel Boldt
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 00:00
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 00:00
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Jason Clifford <jason@dlsl.demon.co.uk> writes: > In article <xzqww6prvjn.fsf@uni-paderborn.de>, Axel Boldt <axel@uni- > paderborn.de> writes > >Proprietary licenses typically prohibit that people help each other by > >cooperating and sharing. Helping, cooperating and sharing are good, > >therefore prohibiting them is evil. > > No they do not. They simply assert the right of the author of the > software (or the licensee in the event that the author(s) have signed > rights over to someone else) to distribute his product in any way that > he wishes. A license does not assert the copyright holder's right to distribute -- that right is already granted by Copyright law. Licenses typically prohibit in convoluted ways that users help others by sharing the software. Many of them even prohibit that a user gives away or sells his legally acquired copy. Try to donate your MS Office CD to a public library one of these days. Others prohibit the use of the software for specific purposes. The copyright holder may have a right to dictate license terms like these, but that doesn't make them less evil. -- Axel Boldt ** axel@uni-paderborn.de ** math-www.uni-paderborn.de/~axel/
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1103af,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gid1103af,public X-Google-Thread: f4bda,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4bda,public X-Google-Thread: fcfb9,942a0596db2b8174 X-Google-Attributes: gidfcfb9,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,942a0596db2b8174 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-Thread: 10d8ad,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d8ad,public From: Axel Boldt <axel@uni-paderborn.de> Subject: Re: KDE v. Gnome Date: 1998/09/28 Message-ID: <xzqn27jj4q5.fsf@uni-paderborn.de> X-Deja-AN: 395767920 References: <6snt2s$rnk$1@news-2.news.gte.net> <slrn706f8l.qlf.jedi@dementia.mishnet> <slrn708sck.3oh.aa126@fan1.fan.nb.ca> <slrn70amsk.6c3.jedi@dementia.mishnet> <slrn70b6md.33f.aa126@fan1.fan.nb.ca> <slrn70c61l.8uq.jedi@dementia.mishnet> <slrn70dq8b.b87.aa126@fan1.fan.nb.ca> <rzGN1.4173$F7.15421868@news.itd.umich.edu> <qj78u6.mf.ln@wog.interlog.com> <p5sohihlrc.fsf@baynetworks.com> <Pine.SOL.3.91.980923105630.13773B-100000@howard> <slrn70ic1k.97.homer_j_simpson@donut.dhis.org> <6uc2pk$jh1$5@blue.hex.net> <873e9hret2.fsf@ivm.de> <6ufkfu$o96$1@taliesin.netcom.net.uk> <87sohgzh44.fsf@ivm.de> <FWc39EA3TLD2Ewp3@dlsl.demon.co.uk> <6uipd0$oj8$1@winter.news.erols.com> <87zpbmkhdn.fsf@ivm.de> <kbCveHAOyWD2EwdN@dlsl.demon.co.uk> <xzqww6prvjn.fsf@uni-paderborn.de> <O+v1HMA6azD2EwLA@dlsl.demon.co.uk> Organization: none Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss