Originally posted by usr_share

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I think this strictly means organizational use. After all, when you work in an organization, you don't own the computers there.

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So, to be absolutely safe from GPL violations, to allow someone to test the program without needing to give them the source, you let them borrow a computer of yours that has the program on it?

I dunno, you could still argue that the "organization" is the development team, of which the testers are part of. That's probably where contracts would get involved. I don't know why, but I really do think that private testing would be permitted under the GPL somehow.

Jeeze, at this point, you could probably get away with it because the ambiguity of what's permitted would spark a GPL-community debate that would outlast the development cycle of your project.

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But Devin, the FSF isn't going to like that.

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Let's free ourselves from freedom for the sake of our freedom to be free of the freedom to be free*!

*free as in tennis

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I had a pair of 3D glasses from Nickelodeon which actually used colors for 3D effects.

That is, when you looked at a rainbow, red would pop out the most, and blue would sink in the most, with yellow/green being in the middle. As a kid, I'd mess around in Kid Pix making 3D pictures that used the glasses. It was pretty cool.

I have a pair of red/cyan 3d glasses, but I think they degrade over time, because the red frame is fine, but the blue frame lets a lot of other colors through, including some red.

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The author of Paku Paku has an interesting take on licensing:

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Source Code (C) Jason M Knight and released to the public domain. If you are going to give something away, lands sake just GIVE IT AWAY!!!. Don't give me none of that dirty hippy "open source" nonsense! Here's a tip: If someone starts running their mouth about "Freedom" and then weigh it down with a 35k licensing agreement placing restrictions on what you can and cannot do with it by way of loopholes in contract law and legalese nobody but a career lawyer can decipher...

Well, does the term "snake oil" ring a bell?

Feel free to do what you like with the code so long as you remain within the scope and practices of International Copyright law by giving credit to the original author - Jason M. Knight.

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Paku Paku was initially released 4 Feb 2011, so it's fairly recent. If this game was developed in 2001 or even 1991, I wonder if he'd have a different stance.

For the record, Paku Paku is a game that makes use of a hack mode of CGA that gives you 16-color bitmapped graphics (as opposed to the usual 4-color graphics), but a resolution of 160x100 (instead of 320x200). This isn't some random bit of code nobody would care about; assuming the game has good performance on older machines, someone might be interested in the library this game uses, to write something that takes advantage of the same display mode.

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It was something like, being introduced to Nesticle way back in 1998 or so, finding YY-SMB a few years later and getting introduced to rom hacking, subsequently finding SMB2 Discombobulator on Acmlm's old site, which was also where the original Acmlm's Board was, and eventually registering there in 2001 or so.

I was there up until the second incarnation, and then I left for a year or two, with Xk eventually calling me back late into incarnation 3. The community was a mess at that point, and sometime during Acmlm's Board 2, Xk set up a small, private community called the "Just Us League" (abbreviated JUL; sound familiar?) where it was just a close circle of friends for a while.

Eventually, Acmlm's Board 2 went pear-shaped and Xk opened JUL publically as an alternative. JUL, the acronym, was eventually dropped, and was just referred to as Jul. TCRF happened a few years later, and Jul slowly became what it is now.

and that's why I'm here.

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