On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 07:12:54PM -0400, Glenn Maynard wrote: > On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 08:37:16AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > We have a licence > > which (AFAIK) we've never seen before, with an ambiguous clause, and some of > > us would like to take the diligent path and disambiguate it. > > That's what the issue really is. We might not know whether this is simply > a redundant "we retain copyright on things we have copyright on anyway", > or a strange attempt at copyright assignment. > > (I say "might" because I don't really have a strong opinion on this.)
I'd upgrade "might" to "do". There have been (by my count) at least three people in this thread who have said "why are they trying to steal other copyrights?". Although an interpretation of the clause with respect to US copyright law says that the clause should only mean "we keep our copyrights" (which is a NOP), has there never been a case where a licensor has attempted to put things into a licence which, by a strict reading of the law, they cannot do? *cough*EULA*cough*. I'd rather a clarification be sought from the licensor, rather than us finding out which way the licensor interprets their clause when someone gets served with legal papers. - Matt
