hugoroy

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by hugoroy 12y ago
> "you is whoever they get the program from" That's not how it works. "You" is, consistently throughout the GPL, whoever gets the program under the GPL license, and that license is between "You" and the
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by hugoroy 12y ago
All sections apply. It's just that the original comment misunderstood what section 6 says. This is the only way to read section 6 coherently with section 4 and the rest of the license. Sure, it's an interpretation. [edit] the poin
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by hugoroy 12y ago
They could still download a new copy, but they would not have the right to modify, reproduce and distribute that copy.
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by hugoroy 12y ago
You're making this "loophole" up. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9156539
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by hugoroy 12y ago
Section 6 does not say that at all. "Each time you redistribute the Program" In this sentence "You" would be VMWare, not the authors of Linux. "the recipient automatically receives a license from the original licens
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by hugoroy 12y ago
This interpretation of the decision is wrong, and I think this is also not a right interpretation of copyright and of the GPL. However, I do think that parties receiving GPL software also have standing to sue, not just authors. And this may
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by hugoroy 12y ago
There is a huge difference: in this case the Vmware product does include linux kernel code. So there's definitely some reproduction and distribution of copyrighted parts even excluding the use of APIs.
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Software Patent Facts(hroy.eu)
1 points by hugoroy 12y ago|0 comments
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Open Whisper Systems partners with WhatsApp to provide end-to-end encryption(whispersystems.me)
10 points by hugoroy 12y ago|1 comments
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by hugoroy 12y ago
Your comment is unclear. Your main argument is that you don’t care, but why don’t you care? I see two hypotheses. 1. Because you don’t care about your rights at all > Then this project is not for you, move on. 2. Because you think the te
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The terms of service tracker(tosback.org)
4 points by hugoroy 12y ago|0 comments
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by hugoroy 12y ago
Hello, hugo from tosdr.org here! Just wanted to point out that everything is on https://github.com/tosdr and there are easy stuff to work on to help us: https://github.com/tosdr/tosdr-build/labels&
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by hugoroy 12y ago
If there’s something you think is wrong, you can discuss and participate . Can you point specific examples which you think are "subjective"?
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by hugoroy 12y ago
Yes but it’s not open source. Ours is: https://tosback.org -- https://github.com/tosdr/tosback2 and tosback3
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by hugoroy 13y ago
(ToS;DR project lead here) We’re a not-for-profit. And all our code is at https://github.com/tosdr/ I’m all fine to see other projects tackling the issue. But I’m not a big fan of closed-source services that exploit pe
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Tumblr Terms and Privacy Policy diff(github.com)
39 points by hugoroy 13y ago|16 comments
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by hugoroy 13y ago
Defamation is illegal, so obviously freedom of speech isn't the highest priority in the US. (I'm just trying to show you that there are limits on what you can say without legal trouble and what you cannot say without legal trouble
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by hugoroy 13y ago
Just a note: 150,000€ is indeed the maximum penaltly allowed by law for this, see http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexteArticle.do;jsession...
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by hugoroy 13y ago
says the guys who surely have read all the privacy policies he supposedly agreed to… right?
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France's Data Protection agency issues their maximum monetary penalty to Google(cnil.fr)
33 points by hugoroy 13y ago|40 comments
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by hugoroy 13y ago
You misread the license: http://ikons.piotrkwiatkowski.co.uk/license.html > Making modifications or alterations to any of the icons does not free you to then sell, license or distribute them to anyone else. If you’re loo
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by hugoroy 13y ago
> It's free and open source, although There's also kolab.org which is completely free software (uses Roundcube for web interface since 3.1).
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Time to stop talking about the free/open Internet(hroy.eu)
1 points by hugoroy 13y ago|0 comments
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by hugoroy 13y ago
and http://www.accountkiller.com/
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by hugoroy 13y ago
Hm. Do you really want to do that on your own? You'd have to find the ToS, document ToS changes, analyse the ToS, etc. We're trying to do that already at http://tosdr.org , please join in ( http://github.com&#
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by hugoroy 13y ago
I'm not basing my judgement on where it comes from. I read the ToS and, since they're in French, I'm sharing two observations: - there are typos there - they don't say much It's not good quality per se , that'
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by hugoroy 13y ago
Good. The text I'm referring to is in French. Can I expect him to write perfect French on a legal document?
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by hugoroy 13y ago
The terms of service are here: https://openmailbox.org/cgu.php There are some typos there and they don't say much. Do I need to say more about the quality of this?
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by hugoroy 13y ago
VideoLan is a non for profit association, and VLC is Free Software (GPL). I wouldn't qualify their incentives as being the same (and VideoLan has no commercial incentive at all by definition).
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by hugoroy 13y ago
Funny. You should have read the Y Combinator Hacker News Guidelines: "Be civil." http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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