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Posted on 02-22-06 01:46 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Coby
So what if the code is copyrighted? Not like anyone's going to know once you compile the program anyway. If you don't want people to use your code, don't release it.


That's the stupidest thing I've heard in a long time.

I was starting to type up a big long post to explain why it was stupid and try and explain the point of these kinds of copyrights -- but I don't think it'd be worth my time. So forget it.
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Since: 11-17-05
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Posted on 02-23-06 01:45 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by BGNG
Gavin:

Your intent was provocative (malicious intent is just as "flaming" as you can get) and with your most recent post, you are clearly unwilling to reasonably consider the things that I have to say. Your most recent post bears no significance to the subject at hand (Krugle) and therefore qualifies as spam.

If you have a bone to pick with me, do it in a PM. Don't clutter up the board with insults.


This is absurd, no where in any of my previous posts was there anything that could be closely considered flaming. The overreaction on your part to a very simple question is utterely puzzling. I ask about statements pertinent to this discussion that are obviously immensely perplexing (to be kind) to anyone who has any knowledge of these matters, and I get called out for flaming??

Well fuck, if I'm getting blamed for it anyway... BGNG: Go fuck yourself

Originally posted by BGNG
Parasyte:
I fully support GNU and the Free Software Foundation. What I do not like is the means by which GNU is ensuring its vision: the GPL. Change the means but keep the cause the same, and I'd like everything about it.

Because of the GPL, which, in my experience, is one of the more popular ways to distribute source code, and because of my distain for the license, something like Krugle wouldn't be as effective as it could be for someone like me. I understand "free source code" to be open for use, public or private, without any legal encumbrances or restrictions.

Since the GPL requires source code to be made available for any distributed work "based on the program" borrowed from, Krugle would end up as more of a display case than something I would feel comfortable using.


You're either more retarded than I thought or absolutely insane.

From Richard Mother-Fucking Stallman (creator of the GNU project)

The goal was to bring a wholly free software operating system into existence. Stallman wanted computer users to be free, as most were in the 1960s and 1970s; free to study the source code of the software they use, free to modify the behaviour of the software, and free to publish their modified versions of the software.


This is so central to what the GNU stands for that I can't even believe you keep repeating your claims. I don't seem to recall GNU ever stating, as you say, that it was to establish it's stated goals of gving rights to software users to modify the programs that run on their computer without any sort of legal framework in place. The only restrictions placed on the code say, "Don't steal my shit" and, "if you use my shit as a base for your new code, make sure other people can do the same so they are offered the cool new advancements you made on top of my code."
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Posted on 02-23-06 02:05 PM Link | Quote
Also BGNG seems to make the mistake that you have to give out a GPL'd program to anyone who wants it, modified or unmodified. All that the GPL asks for is that if you choose to distribute the program, the source has to be just as readily available (assuming the distribution isn't source-only already).
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Since: 11-18-05
From: Canada, w00t!
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STOP TRUNCATING THIS >8^(

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Posted on 02-23-06 10:39 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Coby
So what if the code is copyrighted? Not like anyone's going to know once you compile the program anyway. If you don't want people to use your code, don't release it.

It's easy to tell in a lot of cases by comparing disassembled code. That's how it was found that Sony's XCP crap was doing this.
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