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Re: More FSF hypocrisy
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Hyman Rosen |
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Re: More FSF hypocrisy |
Date: |
Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:04:36 -0400 |
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Rjack wrote:
I agree that typically "provided that" may denote a contractual
condition. So what?
<http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/opinions/08-1001.pdf>
We consider here the ability of a copyright holder to dedicate
certain work to free public use and yet enforce an "open source"
copyright license to control the future distribution and
modification of that work.
...
The District Court held that the open source Artistic License
created an "intentionally broad" nonexclusive license which was
unlimited in scope and thus did not create liability for copyright
infringement.
...
It is outside the scope of the Artistic License to modify and
distribute the copyrighted materials without copyright notices and
a tracking of modifications from the original computer files.
...
The clear language of the Artistic License creates conditions to
protect the economic rights at issue in the granting of a public
license.
...
For the aforementioned reasons, we vacate and remand.
...
Having determined that the terms of the Artistic License are
enforceable copyright conditions, ...
So "open source" licenses work exactly the way they say they do,
and not all of your spinning and twisting will change that.
- Re: More FSF hypocrisy, (continued)
- Re: More FSF hypocrisy, Hyman Rosen, 2009/03/26
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- Re: More FSF hypocrisy, Hyman Rosen, 2009/03/26
- Re: More FSF hypocrisy, Rjack, 2009/03/26
- Re: More FSF hypocrisy, Hyman Rosen, 2009/03/26
- Re: More FSF hypocrisy, Rjack, 2009/03/26
- Re: More FSF hypocrisy, Hyman Rosen, 2009/03/26
- Re: More FSF hypocrisy, Alexander Terekhov, 2009/03/26
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