Chris Nandor wrote: > >At 9:29 -0400 2000.09.11, Ben Tilly wrote: > >If I were to launch a challenge of the AL, the obvious target > >is that it is a copyright statement that violates all sorts of > >rules around fair use and so on. > >Such as? I won't respond to vague assertions anymore. > Suppose I buy a copy of Perl on a CD. Under copyright law it is fair use for me to resell that copy at *any* price I want. That contradicts item 6 of the AL. I have another post with far more detailed criticisms of things that I think could be profitably changed in the AL. (Things that I think are acceptable to the community as a whole but which would make it much more comfortable to lawyers.) > > >Incidentally 3d is redundant. 4d says the same things. What > >3d clearly should have been is "make alternate modification > >arrangements with the Copyright Holder." > >Again, because 3b already covers non-distribution modifications, all other >forms of modification are regarding distribution. 3d and 4d are not >redundant; 3d is about distributing modifications to the Package, 4d is >about distributing object or executable versions of the progams in the >Package. Should a consultant make a modified version of Perl as a work for hire, that does not exactly fit under 3b, nor is it exactly a distribution AFAICS. Yet I think that that is an activity which should be allowed without specific arrangements needing to be made with every copyright holder. Incidentally items 3d and 4d effectively cannot be met if you have many copyright holders (which Perl does). Perhaps some verbiage is desired about, "or a designated Maintainer" with Larry Wall or the current pumpking being named the designated maintainers for Perl? Otherwise the ability to grant that permission is bound in a web of copyrights much like the one that the GPL is aimed at creating preventing relicensing under a different license... Cheers, Ben _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
