From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Poole Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.4 Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:02:44 -0500 Message-ID: <87sl0469gb.fsf@graviton.dyn.troilus.org> References: <7vmyqk563z.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20080207123108.GA12009@bit.office.eurotux.com> <86k5lguce2.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <8763x07thd.fsf@graviton.dyn.troilus.org> <86tzkksuua.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> Reply-To: mdpoole-IZmAEv5cUt1AfugRpC6u6w@public.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, msysgit-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To: David Kastrup X-From: grbounce-SUPTvwUAAABqUyiVh9Fi-Slj5a_0adWQ=gcvm-msysgit=m.gmane.org-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org Thu Feb 07 17:03:28 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvm-msysgit@m.gmane.org Received: from wa-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.146.247]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JN9Dc-0000Hg-1l for gcvm-msysgit@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:03:20 +0100 Received: by wa-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id n36so6476141wag.21 for ; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 08:02:50 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlegroups.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:x-sender:x-apparently-to:received:received:received-spf:authentication-results:received:to:cc:subject:references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:reply-to:sender:precedence:x-google-loop:mailing-list:list-id:list-post:list-help:list-unsubscribe; bh=JqiMy/c9kwmdKiwPeowlfepq7BEyqLW5qrLc1Jz7XGc=; b=ZZQCxlxrhWDzUmkdpxtQg0PmNcgKdjp6eBF6esxwx3TmZ7h82miXueGPkibNxUu4a1sUXVpIkn+dCdIcDaVFh/XF9eQfiZQjusO8yHduloH4GqKzAcGi135sFyxbsI898An9HupZS7sNuaEf36U80CbgTziptT6ZEWBTHhdXMYs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlegroups.com; s=beta; h=x-sender:x-apparently-to:received-spf:authentication-results:to:cc:subject:references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:reply-to:sender:precedence:x-google-loop:mailing-list:list-id:list-post:list-help:list-unsubscribe; b=IGtYSFKFcgTp1y9bQQf8XctHcyeo8YIKI46LD8tejRK0R+hH3bEJfs/8896lYqWmF1x2spk+P8ehw1RGbMUnpnV6qZTFXgCd0Gn3AvcMWW/5974H3wFgGBZFj8b069Ce971j+IifAneU2HDEtF/fByQjoDo5BogSqCPnIzr7jfo= Received: by 10.114.156.1 with SMTP id d1mr811070wae.27.1202400167560; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 08:02:47 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.106.159.22 with SMTP id h22gr1646pre; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 08:02:47 -0800 (PST) X-Sender: mdpoole-IZmAEv5cUt1AfugRpC6u6w@public.gmane.org X-Apparently-To: msysgit-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org Received: by 10.35.14.4 with SMTP id r4mr25280205pyi.2.1202400167278; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 08:02:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from sanosuke.troilus.org ([75.145.205.121]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id a28si6811898pye.0.2008.02.07.08.02.44; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 08:02:47 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: neutral (google.com: 75.145.205.121 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of mdpoole-IZmAEv5cUt1AfugRpC6u6w@public.gmane.org) client-ip=75.145.205.121; Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=neutral (google.com: 75.145.205.121 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of mdpoole-IZmAEv5cUt1AfugRpC6u6w@public.gmane.org) smtp.mail=mdpoole-IZmAEv5cUt1AfugRpC6u6w@public.gmane.org Received: by sanosuke.troilus.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8697089C0F1; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 11:02:44 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <86tzkksuua.fsf-Gv3ZRPJT63HkqtzbHXq1RqVXKuFTiq87@public.gmane.org> (David Kastrup's message of "Thu\, 07 Feb 2008 15\:29\:49 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Sender: msysgit-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org Precedence: bulk X-Google-Loop: groups Mailing-List: list msysgit-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org; contact msysgit-owner-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: , Archived-At: David Kastrup writes: > I think that most countries will grant some right to the purchaser of a > physical copy of copyrighted material. For example, I doubt there are > countries where it is prohibited to read a book you have bought (via a > channel authorized by the copyright holder) when it contains no explicit > license granting you the right to read it. I see two serious dis-analogies here: How many users of msysgit purchase a physical copy of it? (I suspect this is a relevant difference in the US due to its commerce codes, and maybe in other common law countries; it probably is not so important in civil law countries, where exchange of consideration is not a requirement to form a contract.) Reading a literary work is typically not a reserved right, either; while it seems good to treat executing a computer program in the same way as reading a book, all copyright regimes that I know of give consideration to the copy that is made to RAM for most computers. (I will ignore the implications for devices that have execute-in-place non-volatile memory -- I am not a lawyer, and those devices are probably too new to be addressed by courts yet.) Michael Poole [Also- The git list did not receive my previous mail and probably will not receive this one either. vger.kernel.org issues a bogus bounce, shown in part below. I apologize for hijacking the thread this way, but mail to postmaster-at-vger bounces for the same reason. Error in "rcvdfrom" envelope address: 75.145.205-121-BusName-sterling.va.richmond.hfc.comcastbusiness.net!^Q ^ ^-illegal control character \-Extraneous program text .. where my mail host does not use that name for any reason; vger seems to be doing a DNS PTR lookup, then mangling the response.]