On Sat, Aug 15, 1998 at 12:51:52PM +0100, Jules Bean wrote: > RMS has been heard to say something (this came up on -devel or -policy > shortly after I became a maintainer, a month or two ago) claiming that you > can copy any pieces of legal text. Marcus has promised to post here > shortly explaining that, I think.
Done. > My step-father is a lawyer, in the UK, and he says that there is no > special exclusion for copyright on licenses - i.e. licenses can be > copyrighted, and that copyright is enforceable. I'll speak to him again > about it, but that was definitely the story last time I asked.. Well, the copyright as a whole, yes. But be sure to ask for the legal text, the exact terms and conditions. I remember reading the licenses of MS, IBM, Corel and other products. They all were very similar wrt the legal text. Thank you, Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god." Debian GNU/Linux finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09
