Saturday, 2020-10-17
| pabs3 | adlai: FTR, you left just before this message on #conservancy: <bkuhn> Karen and I gave a talk on building additional permissions to create new licensing built on existing ones at OSI's conference https://eventyay.com/e/8fa7fd14/session/6277 … there were some audio issues with the reencoding OSI did at the end but the content is here. | 00:13 |
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| adlai | thank you for relaying, pabs3 | 00:15 |
| adlai | my inner paralegal is having trouble with this clause: | 01:21 |
| adlai | "copyleft advocates usually find copyleft enforcement efforts focused on extract alternative proprietary licenses distasteful" | 01:21 |
| * adlai copied from 13.3 of https://copyleft.org/guide/monolithic/ | 01:22 | |
| * adlai wonders how much a glossary weighs, since the internet has never been less helpful | 01:23 | |
| adlai | volume three (the case studies) oughtta be good reading, until I recover sufficient patience to continue reading normative legalese | 01:26 |
| pabs3 | adlai: the phrase means that the purpose of copyleft is to promote software freedom, when people use it to promote proprietary software, copyleft advocates are sad | 01:31 |
| adlai | what's the word "extract" doing there? | 01:32 |
| * adlai first parsed it as an adjective, although perhaps an "-ing" suffix fell between the copyeditors | 01:32 | |
| adlai | my reflex, as a student of the omerta school of language, is to just delete that word from the sentence. | 01:33 |
| pabs3 | I think -ing is missing indeed | 01:34 |
| * adlai once got angry at a mathematics textbook that contained the same paragraph twice, in separate chapters, although you can't exactly blame an author for eating their own copypasta, can you? | 01:36 | |
| adlai | I wonder what's a reasonable amount of time to allocate for finding a copy of the GPL on this computer, before I throw a book at a wall and use the Internet to find a fresh one. | 01:41 |
| adlai | (according to package metadata, there should be anywhere between one and several hundred copies on this disk) | 01:42 |
| * adlai found | 01:46 | |
| adlai | regrettably, it is likely to be much less amusing reading material than the case studies | 01:47 |
| * adlai starts from GPL version 3, and will proceed by some intertextual variant of the fractional brownian motion | 01:48 | |
| * adlai hopes to finish this quest before death, although remain lurking in this channel in case other conversations are pertinent | 01:49 | |
| * adlai tables the draft of the angry letter to the authors of endsoftpatents.org, with great sadness, because it is much more fun to join a campaign to kill an industry than to choose a copypasta for some crappy throwaway code that turned out to be useful. | 01:53 | |
| * adlai originally placed the throwaway code in the public domain... a naive mistake of the kind that leads directly to the current paranoia. | 01:55 | |
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