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Monday, November 2, 2009

quote of Richard M. Stallman on proposal of 5 year expiry of Copyright - subsequent reasoning

Richard M. Stallman writes
How would the Swedish Pirate Party's platform affect copylefted free software? After five years, its source code would go into the public domain, and proprietary software developers would be able to include it in their programs.


but with all things in Public Domain after you make the changes you can still license your changes under the GNU GPL. It would work something like a dual license every 5 years, wouldn't it?

Example: lets take linux the kernel. After 5 years thus in 2014 it's source code becomes public domain. The developers make changes to some parts of it and rebundle it all under the license of their choice (either be it copyleft or non-copyleft),
...and then in 2019 it becomes public domain again.
...and in 2024 it becomes public domain...but in the meantime it can still be relicensed under GNU GPL.

Proprietary software will be free but only the binaries, but we won't use these "freedom takers" for the same reasons we don't use them today.

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

open source doesn't mean legal

Just because you can get the source doesn't mean that you are getting it legally. There are patents and other problems that are Real Life issues today. There have already been laws made in various countries, but that doesn't mean that new laws aren't ready to make even more patents.

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

gNewSense - free software an analogy to voting rights

gNewSense the GNU/Linux distribution that is used for computer users freedom to share and change the software they use. And then about the analogy of free software to voting rights, with free software meaning that the user has the freedom to change their software, that is indeed running on THEIR OWN computers! They should have 'as much power as possible' over that software. Having the freedom to share and change, or let others share and change that software in freedom is a basic things towards the step of the user having any sort of control over the software that runs ON THEIR OWN COMPUTERS. Basic right!
That's like you have a right to vote, because although we have a right to vote we can't control the world, but it's a basic right to vote.

Friday, June 5, 2009

just watched the show Go Open from www.legaltorrents.com using Miro

That's it

Friday, May 22, 2009

Greenpeace Ελλάδα

Διάλεξα να επικοινωνήσω μέσω της φόρμας, λέγοντας για τη χαρτογράφηση της φύσης που γίνεται στο www.openstreetmap.org .

Ακόμα και ξεχωριστά δέντρα χαρτογραφούνται, μαζί με το κοινό όνομα και το βοτανικό όνομα. Συνήθως βάζω το κοινό όνομα, γιατί δεν είμαι ειδικός να πω ποιο ακριβώς είδος είναι.

In English: Communicating with Greenpeace Greece about the mapping of nature done in openstreetmap.

Saturday, May 16, 2009

Έγραψα στο www.sykies.gr σχόλιο

Από το newsletter μας στέλνετε ενημέρωση για το πότε αρχίζει το επόμενο δημοτικό συμβούλιο?

Monday, May 11, 2009

Openstreetmap - bus routes and bus stops

Taking bus number 56 from the bus stop "Πλατεία Δημοκρατίας". Bus stops that follow:
Εργατικές Κατοικίες, Γέφυρα, Αγία Παρασκευή, Συμμαχικά, Παύλου Μελά, Ταχυδρομείο, Δημαρχείο Σταυρούπολης, Κέντρο Πολιτισμού, Σταυρουπόλ, Στροφή Καρατάσου, Παλιό Τέρμα, Γέφυρα, Κάσμπα, Στροφή Ωραιοκάστρου, Fierra, Μινέρβα, Κόμβος Εξωτερικής Περιφερειακής οδού (very big name for a bus stop), Στροφή Διαβατών, LIDL, Αλιμπάκη, Βερόπουλος, ICBS, Γαλήνη Α, Αρχοντικά, Γαλήνη Β, Οικίες, Παναθήναια, ΟΑΕΔ, Κονταξοπούλειο, Αναψυκτήριο, Πλακίδα (buses 55 and 56 make a stop there). I went off at Πλακίδα, and walked to the place I wanted to go.

At some point much later (or sooner) , I took the bus 56, but didn't note the bus stops anymore, just before the bus was about to enter the Βαρδάρη (Vardari), it turned right and makes a stop at the bus stop Μιχαήλ Καλού, and the next bus stop being Τ.Σ.(Τερματικός Σταθμός) Σταθμός, being the final destination...which is the bus station next to the train station.

After some time I went on the bus 28. I counted from Αντιγονιδών(which I know well), Πλατεία Αντιγονιδών, Παλιά Λαχαναγορά, Υδραγωγείο, ΒΑΟ, Αστυνομία, Κεφαλά, Σκαλάκια, Βρυσάκι, Δενδροφυτεία, εκεί κατέβηκα.
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After taking bus 17 from Καυτανζόγλιο , after ΑΧΕΠΑ bus stop, Τελλόγλειο bus stop.