Re: [tlug] GPL argument: Stephen ?

[Jean-Christophe Helary <fusion@??>]

On 12 fÃvr. 07, at 00:33, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> Jean-Christophe Helary writes:
>
> > I am not sure I fully understood Stephen's GPL argument and, even if
> > it may be OT here, I'd appreciate a "briefing", since I've started to
> > read about IP recently and may be more able to understand the
> > subtleties of the argument.
>
> Which one?  There have been about a half dozen in the last 6 months.

When you were talking about a "royalty" system regarding the GPL.

> If you're interested in GPLv2, I strongly recommend Larry Rosen's book
> on Open Source Licensing.  There's a similarly-named book published by
> O'Reilly, but it's not as good (it's not bad, either).

I bought that one a few weeks ago and need to find time to read it.  
I'll check the Rosen book.

>   He has a
> couple of chapters on issues with copyleft, the GPL in particular, and
> the FSF's interpretation of the GPL.  Larry's an open source guy (not
> a free software fanatic) and openly advocates software patents, so you
> may find a lot of his conclusions not to your taste.  (The book does
> not contain that much advocacy, though.)  Still Larry's a very good
> lawyer and a good writer, so you'll at least understand the arguments
> well.

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software/sw patents and IP in general plus the book itself does not  
talk about FOSS at all, but is a very thorough introduction to IP  
issues in general.

On the OOo-ja discuss list I was given a few references too:

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Mr. åç is a technical writer who has contributed to a number of  
OOo books.

> If you want to know about GPLv3, really the main source is
> gplv3.fsf.org.  My understanding from Larry and a couple other lawyers
> interested in the issues is that they prefer to work within the
> process (which is an excellent process).  So I haven't had much luck
> finding serious (== constructive) criticism outside of the FSF site.

I am not really trying to follow the evolution of the debate because  
I have yet to understand a number of basic concepts ;) But I have  
been on the GPLv3 site a number of times already.

Thanks for the references and I'd really appreciate if you could  
explain the "royalty" thing once again.

JC