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Re: [gNewSense-users] KFV: how to handle COPYING?
From: |
Bake Timmons |
Subject: |
Re: [gNewSense-users] KFV: how to handle COPYING? |
Date: |
Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:12:23 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) |
> Many source files include not license text but a *reference* to a
> license and sometimes version. If License X has any number of
> variants floating around, what good would references like "distributed
> under License X version Y" be? How could such use be legally binding
> in practice? Hence the need to discourage rampant modifications put
> under similar names--particularly of extremely popular licenses. This
> is not to mention other issues, like license incompatibilities.
Sorry, what I meant is if License X, License X version Y, etc., had no
official, unique, word-for-word form. By "variants" I did not mean
official versions--on the contrary, unofficial.
- Re: [gNewSense-users] KFV: how to handle COPYING?, (continued)
- Re: [gNewSense-users] KFV: how to handle COPYING?, crap0101, 2008/06/24
- Re: [gNewSense-users] KFV: how to handle COPYING?, Sam Geeraerts, 2008/06/24
- Re: [gNewSense-users] KFV: how to handle COPYING?, Bake Timmons, 2008/06/24
- Re: [gNewSense-users] KFV: how to handle COPYING?, Bake Timmons, 2008/06/25
- Re: [gNewSense-users] KFV: how to handle COPYING?, Karl Goetz, 2008/06/25
- Re: [gNewSense-users] KFV: how to handle COPYING?, Bake Timmons, 2008/06/26
- Re: [gNewSense-users] KFV: how to handle COPYING?, Karl Goetz, 2008/06/26
- Re: [gNewSense-users] KFV: how to handle COPYING?, Bake Timmons, 2008/06/26
- Re: [gNewSense-users] KFV: how to handle COPYING?, Sam Geeraerts, 2008/06/26
- Re: [gNewSense-users] KFV: how to handle COPYING?, Bake Timmons, 2008/06/26
- Re: [gNewSense-users] KFV: how to handle COPYING?,
Bake Timmons <=
- Re: [gNewSense-users] KFV: how to handle COPYING?, Sam Geeraerts, 2008/06/26
- Re: [gNewSense-users] KFV: how to handle COPYING?, Sam Geeraerts, 2008/06/26
- Re: [gNewSense-users] KFV: how to handle COPYING?, Karl Goetz, 2008/06/27