Sanjoy Mahajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Linus Torvalds wrote: > > That said, I think they are still pushing the "you don't have any > > rights unless we give you additional rights explicitly" angle a bit > > too hard. > > From section 2 (GPLv3, draft 2): > > This License acknowledges your rights of "fair use" or other > equivalent, as provided by copyright law. > > By choosing 'acknowledges' as the verb, the licensee says explicitly > that fair-use rights are already yours, not that they are being given > to you.
Pure noise, a license can't take them away in any case. [That is my pet pevee with GPL: It has a bit of legally binding text, and lots of "explanation" and "philosophy" that don't add anything but confusion. A clear-cut license plus an explanation/comment would have been better. IMHO, IANAL. HAND.] -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 2797513 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
