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On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 11:00:55AM -0400, Michael Poole wrote:
> Brian Thomas Sniffen writes:
> > It's a unilateral license. It can't mean anything but what he intends
> > it to mean.
>
> Reference, please? That is Alice in Wonderland logic ("Words mean
> exactly what I want them to mean, neither more nor less."). I hope
> that a license means what is written.Welcome to the Wonderland that is copyright law. http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2000/08/msg00147.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2000/09/msg00001.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2000/09/msg00013.html To date, no one appears to have had the courage to challenge the University of Washington's interpretation of "copy, modifify, and distribute" in court (by subjecting themselves to a civil or criminal copyright infringement suit). UWash later changed the wording of the license in question. -- G. Branden Robinson | Do not attempt to disprove the Debian GNU/Linux | four-colour theorem on your flag! [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Josh Parsons http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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