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(portage list is maybe the best place to send this, but still, maybe usable |
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as i dont know lists with such specific purpose -- so sending it to gentoo |
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list and gnu) |
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I have thought about such things: |
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1. Formats like mp3 are put together in such way that basically noone can |
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use them with a free application. There should be licence, which grants some |
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file formats an opposite -- that no application, which supports any |
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commercial file format, must not support them. Then people who want, may put |
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all their free music up in that format -- or even licence their music in |
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such way that it's only free as long as it is used together with it. Goal of |
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such licence would be to give gnu people the same ways to take their market |
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position, as corporations do -- this may not seem "nice" to those |
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corporations, but it targets the problem, i think. |
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1a. Licence, which protects a format against being used in any app, which |
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supports any poorly documented format like MS word document and by any |
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product by any company, which owns any such format. |
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2. In many countries there are software patents. I think that there should |
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be licence against them similar to previous licence -- so that i may patent |
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my free software in such way that any company, which uses any commercial |
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patent in it's production, must not use that software [or, as alternative |
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licence, must pay for it to gnu, licence owner or anyone that patenter sees |
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as deserving it]. So, not "if used in commercial products", but "if used by |
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commercial company". Patents may be also used in different ways -- for |
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example, there may be long list of things a company *must not do* or *must |
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not be*, if they want to use the patent. |
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I think that there are several kinds of people using gnu licences: |
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* Those, who actually fight against certain types of licences, corporative |
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policies etc. and want to protect their work against to be used in any such |
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project -- maybe even in marketing campain of a corporation, who is |
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"supporting free software" by taking it's code into use or just supporting |
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it, like IBM with Red Hat. Those people may, therefore, even want it to be |
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not given away freely with $40 CD and book. |
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* Those, who just dont want their code to be used with any direct commercial |
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purpose and want it to be open, but dont go too far in philosophy and let |
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their programming language, for example, be used in making commercial |
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product. |
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* Those, who want their code to be free and open and any development to be |
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free and open, but may say something like "wow our soft is used even in |
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commercial products". |
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* Those, who just give it for free to students and schools, for example. |
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* Those nasty people who make those "free lite versions", which almost work |
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and spam all search engines ;) |
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Ok, my additions here are -- gnu should think more about those people, who |
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are actually wanting their code to be propagated only by freeware-makers and |
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run only in environments, which contain no commercial products and are not |
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used for any commercial purposes. Ok, they still contain commercial hardware |
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and people may write their commercial e-mails in them, but anyway, to have a |
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music format, which licence does it's best to make it so that you have to |
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*choose between mp3 and mpfree*, not choose between having both or only free |
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one, would be good. Freeware builders should have at least one "market", |
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which uses all nasty microsoft-intel trusted corporate policies to protect |
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itself against everyone other who use them ;) Such "corporation" could be |
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nice macintosh to other free products, which are not so radical in their way |
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(ok, what we would eat, when going too radical, but still -- Microsoft |
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actually *fights* openoffice, so what having alternative openoffice format, |
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which is, for example, illegal to be used on commercial OS or, |
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alternatively, illegal to be used in any application supporting word doc's). |
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tvali |
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http://www.friesian.com/types.htm |