FC4 or FC5

[bruce]

lord...

who would have thought my original question would have morphed into a topic
on gpl/open source/licensing...

ip related patents are not a bad thing. the patent office should do a much
better job of looking, and evaluating based on prior art. but if i put my
blood, sweat, tears into creating something novel. i have, and should have a
right to patent it.

you of course have a right to go out and try to recreate the same thing,
without infringing my  patent... you can then decide what you want to do
with what you've created...

but you don't have the right to simply take what i've created.. and to do
whatever you want... if you think you should have that right, let me know
where you live so i can come and take your car/stereo/ipod/etc...

-bruce


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[mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Peter Gordon
Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 8:30 AM
To: For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: FC4 or FC5


Les Mikesell wrote:
> Actually it is commercial vs GPL. [...]
The GPL specifically allows commercial redistribution. The
only restriction it contains is that the cost for a copy of
the source code cannot exceed the cost of the binaries sold.

> Many patented components that can't ever be combined with
> GPL'd code and legally distributed....   Consider what is
> in the media player alone.  It is easy enough to add
> free components like OpenOffice or Cygwin to Windows, but
> how do you add device drivers with patented technology
> to Linux?
Software patents are a Bad Thing(TM). What we need to do is
strive to strike down such patent law and also encourage the
patent holders to grant an irrevocable, world-wide, royalty-
free license for any purpose imaginable on behalf of the
public so that all can benefit from its code. (For example,
the Theora video codec is actually based on On2's patented
VP3, but they released all patent rights to it so that
anyone may use it for any purpose without such licensing
costs.)

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