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Comment Re:Well, duh. (Score 1) 338

The copyright holder alone has the authority to produce copies, but the license you're referring to is at best a contract negotiating an agreement between two parties. One party is offering a copy of something as part of the agreement. The other is usually offering some amount of money.

Comment $15/mo? Where? (Score 1) 338

Where do you see a $15/mo plan? AT&T's website lists $35/mo as the cheapest data plan for a ridiculously low amount of 200 MB (that is equivalent to 80 *bytes* per second). If you pay $60/mo, you can upgrade to a mere 5 GB (2 KB/sec). The cheapest voice plan is $40/mo, so no matter what discount on data those might offer, you're still starting at $40/mo base cost.

Comment Re:GPL3 (Score 1) 338

On the contrary, GPL3 addresses the topic of signing keys specifically, and makes exceptions where one is not required to distribute them. Under GPL2, they are merely part of the collective term "source code" and required to be distributed with the rest of it.

Comment Re:When your lawyer withdraws, you're probably gui (Score 1) 143

If the defendant confesses, all lawyers are required to withdraw (or at least, they are prohibited from lying). If the defendant doesn't confess, no lawyer has the authority to judge him on his own. Their job is to continue working to prove that he may not be guilty, despite the evidence suggesting he is.

Comment Re:time to port gnome! (Score 1) 828

Qt already permits linking from non-GPL-compatible code. It has exceptions for virtually every major license, so your code could even be BSD-licensed and closed source if you don't mind giving Nokia/TrollTech the code on request.

Comment Re:What the hell? (Score 0) 779

Religious discrimination spans far more than inclusion-based "only religion may work here". It also includes obvious things such as EXCLUSION "Satanists can't work here".

Perhaps a better example: you turn someone down because they admit to finding stealing acceptable; they come back with a claim it's part of their religion. Do you, in this scenario, have to hire them to avoid religious discrimination?

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