On 2004-07-15 02:25:50 +0100 Walter Landry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...] For almost every license discussion on -legal, there is little discussion about what the actual software does.
I consider this a bug, not a feature. We simply don't have the tools for analysing licences without application to software, so nearly always some software is used to facilitate the analysis, even hypothetical software.
[...] I simply don't buy it that a license might be free for one kind of program but not free for another.
Good. I think the argument you are referring to is this one:
Now, it is true that authors can add additional clauses to change the status of a license. [...]
I don't agree that this is "using a different licence" though. It's using the same licence in combination with some other stuff.
-- MJR/slef My Opinion Only and not of any group I know http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ for creative copyleft computing "Matthew Garrett is quite the good sort of fellow, despite what my liver is sure to say about him in [...] 40 years" -- branden
