Francesco Poli wrote: > 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. Oy. Will people *cut* this *out*? There's no *point* in putting your license text under a restrictive license, even if you can.
> This brings up the question (once again): is a legal text, such as a > copyright license, copyrightable? In which jurisdictions? Not in the US. No idea about other countries. > 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)? In the US. > Discussions about the GNU GPL preamble and the GPL FAQ[1] seem to > suggest that legal text is not considered copyrightable. Not in the US. > [1] compare <http://www.fsf.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#ModifyGPL> > and copyright notice in <http://www.fsf.org/licenses/gpl.txt> -- Make sure your vote will count. http://www.verifiedvoting.org/
