On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Craig Sanders wrote:
> > There are two major reasons that it might be illegal to copy something:
> >
> > 1) You are violating someone's copyright;
> > 2) You have signed a contract stating that you will not do it.
> >
> > If I take something which is 'in the public domain', a
On Tue, Feb 16, 1999 at 10:46:18PM +, Jules Bean wrote:
> > there is no copyright or license for public domain stuff. you can do
> > *anything* you want with it.
>
> You can do anything you want. However, you cannot 'license' it. You can
> sell it, of course. However, you cannot stop someon
On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Craig Sanders wrote:
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> you can re-license public domain stuff as there is no copyright, i.e.
> there is NOTHING which prevents you from doing so.
>
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> there is no copyright or license for public domain stuff. you can do
> *anything* you want with it.
You
On Tue, Feb 16, 1999 at 10:17:06PM +, Jules Bean wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Craig Sanders wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 16, 1999 at 11:18:54AM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
> >
> > > If I got it as "public domain" (that is, "do whatever you want
> > > with this") then that is not relicensing. He said
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On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Craig Sanders wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 16, 1999 at 11:18:54AM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
>
> > If I got it as "public domain" (that is, "do whatever you want with this")
> > then that is not relicensing. He said "do whatever you want with this" so
> > I
On Tue, Feb 16, 1999 at 11:18:54AM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
> If I got it as "public domain" (that is, "do whatever you want with this")
> then that is not relicensing. He said "do whatever you want with this" so
> I did.
"anything" includes the action of re-licensing. i.e. he is explicitly
all
I wrote:
> You cannot relicense someone else's work.
Anthony Towns writes:
> You can redistribute their work on different terms to those given to you.
> ``You must pay me $5'' instead of ``You must pay Joe $5'', for example.
If I got it as "public domain" (that is, "do whatever you want with this
Stephane Bortzmeyer writes:
> Browsing through "debian/copyright" files, it seems that almost no Debian
> developer added such a licence (for his own work) or relicenced
> anything. In the absence of an explicit licence, can we assume that the
> licence of Debian-specific files is the same as the u
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