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@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ into which GPL3 fits.
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<p id="gates-surrender">[Section: First: Bill Gates has surrendered]</p>
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But the first thing I think I ougth to do, is to give you some news: Mr. Gates
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But the first thing I think I ought to do, is to give you some news: Mr. Gates
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has surrendered.
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</p>
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@ -395,7 +395,7 @@ moment you will see that in the torrent are a bunch of people "distributing
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binaries" who don't think of themselves as distributors, who think
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of themselves as users receiving the binary who have no source code and who
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haven't even got all the binary, yet. So that even if source code will later be part
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of the same torrent they're not guaranted to have it and they can't pass it
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of the same torrent they're not guaranteed to have it and they can't pass it
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along.
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</p>
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@ -449,7 +449,7 @@ getting great work out of people.
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</p>
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<p class="indent">
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This is true of the committees. [inaudable short sentence] Committee
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This is true of the committees. [inaudible short sentence] Committee
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members have spent dozens of hours, in some cases hundreds of hours,
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working on this licence. They have spent a lot of time communicating,
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they have spent a lot of time refining ideas, they have spent lot of
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@ -611,7 +611,7 @@ law.
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I will say, therefore, the second discussion draft of GPL3 will not have any
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longer any dependency on the American copyright law idea of a "derivative work".
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Accordingly we will be able to avoid another fifteen years of complaining from
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lawyers who quite justifibly thought the reliance on a US centric view of
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lawyers who quite justifiably thought the reliance on a US centric view of
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the derivative work was a major source of uncertainty and uneasiness. They may
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think that what we have done instead is not a perfect improvement, but I feel
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certain that there will at least be the recognition that it's a
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@ -1228,7 +1228,7 @@ I expect that US courts will be instructed on the intention of the licensor
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to reject the features of DMCA as it applies to GPL software. I expect the
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United States courts to listen closely to statements of the licensor's intent,
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because under US copyright law it is the licensor's intent which normatively
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determines the content of licene.
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determines the content of license.
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</p>
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@ -1896,9 +1896,9 @@ restriction, not negative about restriction.
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</p>
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The position being taken is "to have a community requires some minimun
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The position being taken is "to have a community requires some minimal
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restrictions to preserve community". We tend to see the other side's
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view of that question "there ought to be no restriction except those
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view of that question "there ought to be no restrictions except those
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which are inevitable" as too libertarian to be firmly communal. If
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you want to keep a community in being you may have to say "clean up
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after your dog on the sidewalk". Yeah, it's a restriction on use, but
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@ -1933,14 +1933,14 @@ that they wanted users and customers to have
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So over the course of decades, a copyright licence ceased to be only a licence,
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and became very largely a contract for customer's obligations, because the
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and became very largely a contract for customers' obligations, because the
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customer's obligations were a big part of what the party writing the licence,
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which wasn't the customer, wanted to see in there.
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</p>
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<p class="indent">
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We came along and said "We don't even want all of what copyright gives us, let
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alone that we want anything else", so we can use a pure licence, because most of
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alone do we want anything else", so we can use a pure licence, because most of
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what we want to do is to give away copyright law, and no part of what we want to
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do is to take additional obligations from people that aren't within the scope of
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copyright law.
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@ -1960,11 +1960,11 @@ away from them using contracts, where what you're giving them is just
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a program to run. It's in the nature of the criticism we were making
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of the legal institutions being used by others, that we were calling
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attention to a thing which had happened barely consciously, and which
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is still a kind of unreleased restriction in some people's mind.
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is still a kind of unreleased restriction in some people's minds.
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</p>
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<p class="indent">
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Alright, thank you very much, I appreciated it.
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Alright, thank you very much, I appreciate it.
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</p>
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