On Sat, 8 Aug 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > b) Non-technical documents. > I listed the following: > > 1. Trademarks, Copyrights
I'm playing devil's advocate here, I admit. But why shouldn't copyright's be free? I mean, obviously I can't change the copyright under which you place your piece of work. But, if I want to put some unrelated work of mine under a copyright, and I choose to invent a new copyright (license) of my own, which I derive from the one you use, why should this upset you? For example, you included in your first email a copyright based on the GPL. A derivative work of the GPL, in fact. According to the GPL's copyright, you have just broken the law. This strikes me as a little odd. > 2. Personal opinions, email quotes > 3. essays, graphic novels > > I think everybody agrees that we don't benefit from changing these, and we > shouldn't change them. (As this would probably be a violation of the > personality of the author). Are they only acceptable in non-free (as Jules > says), or do we allow them in main (Manoj and me)? > Maybe you don't want to change them. But, before agreeing that they are OK in main, ask yourself, 'Might I, or might one of our users, want to create a derived work?' One of the advantages of main, IMHO, is that I know I can create a dervied work from anything therein, without carefully reading the license. I would not like to give up that right too easily... Disclaimer: I don't feel as strongly about this as I perhaps seem to. If the body of opinion is against me, I will vote with Marcus and Manoj. But I raise these issues for completeness.. Jules /----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------\ | Jelibean aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 6 Evelyn Rd | | Jules aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Richmond, Surrey | | Julian Bean | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TW9 2TF *UK* | +----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------+ | War doesn't demonstrate who's right... just who's left. | | When privacy is outlawed... only the outlaws have privacy. | \----------------------------------------------------------------------/
