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:Alexis de Tocqueville Institution: Patents and the Penguin
Alexis de Tocqueville Institution: Patents and the Penguin
May 12, 2004, 01 :00 UTC (11 Talkback[s]) (9979 reads)

(Other stories by Ken Brown)

"To summarize, the General Public License (GPL), the contract/license for GNU/Linux software and other open source software requires distribution of the source code for the original program. If you receive a copy of GPL’ed software, you can use it without worrying about the original author exercising any limitations, fees, licenses, etc. The GPL enables developers to transfer the rights of their work to anyone they would like, for the privilege of having the reciprocal use of GPL’ed work. This feature makes selling GPL’ed software inane because anyone that agrees to the terms of the GPL can also have a copy of the same software with the code--for free.

"However, the dynamic nature of software patenting, something that cannot be governed directly by the GPL, has made it very difficult for the future of open source development to play out predictably..."

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FYI, these guys is paid by MS, so their  ...   Paid Shills   
bjorn stadil
May 12, 2004, 01:18:11
 
A German court just some weeks ago pass  ...   German Court on the GPL !   
GH
May 12, 2004, 01:38:15
 
Alexis de Tocqueville Institution is an  ...   A de T Institution   
Xunil Ung
May 12, 2004, 02:34:59
 
This appears to be a very well researche ...   Land Mines   
Larry Smith
May 12, 2004, 04:01:33
 
To summarize, the General Public License ...   Same old, same old   
Bojan Smojver
May 12, 2004, 10:08:12
 
Its amazing that people just accept some ...   "Communism is bad, so software patents are good".   
Richard Corfield
May 12, 2004, 11:07:47
 
> This appears to be a very well researc ...   Re: Land Mines   
Bojan Smojver
May 12, 2004, 12:20:13
 
> This appears to be a very well researc ...   Re: Land Mines   
Bruce B.
May 12, 2004, 12:30:57
 
Just a thought. The open source movement ...   GPL vs patents   
Jack Strangio
May 12, 2004, 22:24:22
 
Dear Mr Brown,.I am writing to you regar ...   my Letter   
Tim Dion
May 12, 2004, 23:11:31
 
I updated a number of pages on Disinfope ...   Alexis de SMOKEville smoked out   
lion kuntz
May 24, 2004, 11:27:05
 
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