Re: (c) does not equal "copyright"

2009-07-27 Thread demery
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009, Graham Percival said: > let's do it. I got busy and left off tracking this thread a while back, agree with you completely, simple, no-brainer to convert present sources. Having done that, there is one issue remaining, getting the standard disclaimer(s) into new sources. T

Re: (c) does not equal "copyright"

2009-07-27 Thread Graham Percival
AFAIK, nothing really came from this thread, and I can't even remember what I replied at the time. My opinion now: if that's the legal advice from GNU, let's do it. Mark, are you willing to do this, or shall we open an issue on the tracker for it? Cheers, - Graham On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 07:21:

Re: (c) does not equal "copyright"

2009-07-19 Thread Hans Aberg
On 19 Jul 2009, at 19:52, > wrote: ask them to provide proof that you were the clicker. can we afford to pay the legal fees associated with the asking of that question in court? Only in fair justice systems... Why waste time debateing? find a willing tadpole and turn them loose. ...ther

Re: (c) does not equal "copyright"

2009-07-19 Thread demery
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009, Hans Aberg said: > ask them to provide proof that you were the > clicker. can we afford to pay the legal fees associated with the asking of that question in court? Why waste time debateing? find a willing tadpole and turn them loose. -- Dana Emery __

Re: (c) does not equal "copyright"

2009-07-18 Thread Hans Aberg
On 18 Jul 2009, at 22:07, Graham Percival wrote: That said, in some jurisdictions you can get higher damages if you've included a "Copyright 20xx by blah". There was an interesting example given about UK copyright law: If somebody writes a letter to the Queen, she becomes the owner of that

Re: (c) does not equal "copyright"

2009-07-18 Thread Hans Aberg
On 18 Jul 2009, at 22:07, Graham Percival wrote: The copyright symbol “©” can be included if you wish (and your character set supports it), but it's not necessary. There is no legal significance to using the three-character sequence “(C)”, although it does no harm. There is nowadays no le

Re: (c) does not equal "copyright"

2009-07-18 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 11:30:13AM -0700, Mark Polesky wrote: > > Hans Aberg wrote: > > > The > > > copyright symbol “©” can be included if you wish (and your character set > > > supports it), but it's not necessary. There is no legal significance to > > > using the three-character sequence “(C)”,

Re: (c) does not equal "copyright"

2009-07-18 Thread Mark Polesky
Hans Aberg wrote: > > The > > copyright symbol “©” can be included if you wish (and your character set > > supports it), but it's not necessary. There is no legal significance to > > using the three-character sequence “(C)”, although it does no harm. > > There is nowadays no legal significance of

Re: (c) does not equal "copyright"

2009-07-18 Thread Hans Aberg
On 18 Jul 2009, at 04:21, Mark Polesky wrote: The copyright symbol “©” can be included if you wish (and your character set supports it), but it's not necessary. There is no legal significance to using the three-character sequence “(C)”, although it does no harm. There is nowadays no legal

Re: (c) does not equal "copyright"

2009-07-18 Thread demery
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009, Mark Polesky said: > > Is this something to address? Depends on how much value is placed on the copyrights, and the legal validity of gnu's viewpoint (which I am not disputing, I have no particular knowledge of copyright law). At issue is the prospect of someone winning