[even more OT] Talking Heads

[Lynn Fredricks]

 > Lynn Fredricks wrote:
> 
> "I think we are agreed that the Patent system is on the Road 
> to Nowhere :-)"

I was refering to a title of a Talking Heads song :-)

> Um:
> 
> 1. Copyright?
> 
> 2. Open Source?
> 
> 3. Co-existence between several models.
> 
> And, in the case of software, where does a patent end and 
> copyright start?

The differences between what should be patented, copyrighted or trademarked
is reasonably well documented, though often creatively applied.


> Consider a small problem:
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> A while ago I wrote a message to one of the high-ups at 
> Ubuntu offering to let them have FREE linux versions of a 
> couple of programs I made about
> 6 years ago about Phonetics using RR.
> 
> They were refused on the grounds that, while I was entitled 
> to distribute standalones free, they were built using 
> proprietary software.
> 
> Personally I thought they were being a bit silly.

Ubuntu or Canonical?

It could be that it could come down to only bundling stuff that is under a
particular license.

Richard Gaskin's comments:

> To some purists, even Rev projects released under the LGPL 
> will never been perceived as "true" open source projects 
> because they require a proprietary engine to run.  This of 
> course overlooks that even if the Rev engine were open source 
> it would still require the larger "proprietary engine": the OS itself.

The is the "love the idea, hate the church" problem I find so frustrating
with the open source world.

Best regards,

Lynn Fredricks
President
Paradigma Software
http://www.paradigmasoft.com

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