SynthModules

I probably haven't thought this through as much as others, but wouldn't some sort of license that stops somebody from trying to assert exclusive owndership of the code be a good thing?  Maybe that's not what the GNU license does.  Dammit Jim, I'm a librarian, not a lawyer.

Bryan

>>> grichter@asapnet.net 02/27/06 4:40 PM >>>

The idea that if you are too lazy or stupid or crazy to do something useful, you get the 
right to keep anybody else from doing it, is fundamentally un-American.

--- In SynthModules@yahoogroups.com, "Bryan E Cornell" <bcor@...> wrote:
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> Isn't this liscense just ensuring that nobody turns this into a private, commercial work?
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> Bryan
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> >>> grichter@... 02/27/06 2:11 PM >>>
> > Grab the existing programs from here:
> >     http://www.synthmodules.com/programs/PSIM-1_Programs/ 
> 
> This is utter and complete bullshit.
> 
> Mike Murphy and I were guaranteed that all software contributed would be Public 
Domain.
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> All software I and Mike contributed IS still Public Domain, remove the GPL header. It is 
> incorrect.
> 
> It is not the intent of the courts to use intellectual property laws to obstruct the 
progress of 
> American technology. The only claim a manufacturer can make against a copy is loss of 
> income, which if you are not selling or shipping a design, CAN NOT be claimed!
> 
> If the design is not shipped commercially for two years, it becomes "fallow" and is no 
longer 
> defensible under intellectual property laws. The term is "failure to commercialize". This 
will 
> invalidate a PATENT, although the time needed is longer.
> 
> If you design something, you must put it in production, and KEEP it in production or you 
lose 
> all rights to the design.
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