On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 09:44:18 -0400 Jeremy Hankins wrote: > This license is Copyright (C) 2003 Lawrence E. Rosen. All rights > reserved. Permission is hereby granted to copy and distribute this > license without modification. This license may not be modified > without the express written permission of its copyright owner.
This brings up the question (once again): is a legal text, such as a copyright license, copyrightable? In which jurisdictions? I know that, of course, people other than copyright holders of a given work *cannot* change the license _applied_ to that work. But can they pick the license text and modify it in order to create _another_ license (with different license name)? Discussions about the GNU GPL preamble and the GPL FAQ[1] seem to suggest that legal text is not considered copyrightable. [1] compare <http://www.fsf.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#ModifyGPL> and copyright notice in <http://www.fsf.org/licenses/gpl.txt> -- | GnuPG Key ID = DD6DFCF4 | You're compiling a program Francesco | Key fingerprint = | and, all of a sudden, boom! Poli | C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 | -- from APT HOWTO, | 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4 | version 1.8.0
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