On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 02:00:08PM -0800, Walter Landry wrote: > > Your broad definition of "technical measures to obstruct or control > > the reading or further copying of the copies" would prevent me from > > keeping a GFDL-licensed work locked in my house: the doors and locks > > obstruct reading by random passerby. > > Just because the clause can be taken to an absurd limit doesn't mean > that it won't be enforced in more "reasonable" circumstances. I don't > think that my interpretation is all that extreme.
Please don't go there. A good lawyer can make clauses like this mean *anything*. It's a good idea to avoid having them in licenses at all (which is an independant complaint about the FDL). -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | Dept. of Computing, `. `' | Imperial College, `- -><- | London, UK
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