These are the last odds and ends of my GPL Q&A series. I may or may not find the energy to elaborate on the patent and DRM provisions tomorrow, since those seem to have generated the most questions, but I may not- I’m completely destroyed right now, and I plan on going to a baseball [...]
(Before going further, you should (at the minimum) read the disclaimer on Monday’s post and (ideally) make sure you’ve read all of the past two posts. (first, second.))
Q: Companies hate this! The sky is falling if the GPL is adopted!
A: Find your calm place. There is no doubt that the new license will create new [...]
(This is part two of a series. Before going further, you should (at the minimum) read the disclaimer on yesterday’s post and (ideally) make sure you’ve read all of yesterday’s post.)
Q: Has there ever been a sequel that wasn’t terrible?
A: Godfather II and Star Wars II. (I refuse to call it V.) I’m no Coppola, [...]
… if anyone can find me a copyleft/gpl logo that looks like it was designed in the same decade as GPL 3, has some color, and doesn’t have ‘cc’ in it, I owe you a beer. The black and white (c) doesn’t cut it in 2007.
Q: So why are we here?
A: At the end of this week, after 16 years, the Free Software Foundation should bless version three of the GNU General Public License, the sequel to what is arguably the most widely used and most impactful copyright license ever.1 Quite literally everyone who makes software - open, proprietary, or [...]
Matt, all of the following are probably true. I graduate:
(a) two years from last month.
(b) way too late, because so many interesting companies are doing so many interesting things right now.
(c) way too soon, because answering the Big Questions is probably going to need the kind of deep thinking that tends to be enabled by [...]
Does ‘click here for the rest’ actually work in my blog and/or my feeds?
I wrote that epic piece; Prof. Wu captured roughly the same feeling in one sentence:
I can’t help feeling that its like that part in the Lord of the Rings when the elves start leaving middle-earth…
Yeah, like that.
I discovered yesterday that there were quite a few false positives in my wordpress spam filter. I’ve installed some additional tools to reduce the number of things in the spam folder so that I can review it more regularly, but generally, if you think your comment has vanished for some reason, email me. I do [...]
If I feel compelled to use the word ‘pee’ in a company-wide email (twice), am I really cut out to be a lawyer?
