[DUG] Open source licences

[Kyley Harris]

No.... none of these comments are directed at a person, only directed at  
the text presented.
And a state of mind. I dont care what anyone says. Anyone of us who finds  
a dollar on the side of
the road is not making a pit stop to deliver it. I find most people if  
they see someone dropping some
money normally call out. But I think most people who find money in the  
gutter would probably keep it.

Just Debating ;)

My point is... and I will back it up quite easy, as i did with reference  
to the world wide intellectual property
laws. That any written media, music, books, newspapers etc and software  
are all copyright by default, and
anyone saying rubbish is going to accidentally be breaching such  
copyrights if they think otherwise.

A software license is not something to ignore. a license is something that  
takes a copyrighted work and says
if you follows these rules, (and maybe pay money or whatever) i will grant  
you the right to use my copyrighted work. if there is no such statment  
then you simply have no rights whatsoever to use anothers work... Thats  
not rubbish. its fact.

I guess Grant just made some comments that were off the wall, and got  
responded to. I also didn't call him a
software pirate. the "?" at the end of the question should have made it  
quite clear that it was a question referring
to the statement that you can do anything you want with OpenSource, or any  
other code you might download.
The fact is that you can.... and that makes you a pirate....

the word "you" is 3rd person context and should be construed as "anyone"  
because this is a public forum for discussion, not berating individuals..




On Wed, 07 Dec 2005 20:13:01 +1300, <peter at webcentre.co.nz> wrote:

> Kyley wrote:
>
>> As far as being unaware....... come on. If you find $100 bucks on the  
>> road
>> you are legally obliged to hand it
>> into the cops. I bet you don't, but you are breaking a law.
>
> I am sure you did not intend to imply that Grant -- or some other
> "you" reading this thread -- would simply pick up $100 and pocket it?
> cheers,
> peter
>
>
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