Em Sat, 22 Nov 2014 16:53:40 -0500
Rob Tomsick <[email protected]> escreveu:
> On Saturday, November 22, 2014 07:34:36 PM Bruno Félix Rezende
> Ribeiro wrote:
> > That may be true for non-trivial licenses like GPLv3, but that's
> > hardly the case for very permissive licenses (like X11's), as they
> > are almost virtually identical to the public domain.
>
> Please don't muddy the waters. The X11/MIT/BSD and other permissive
> licenses are not "virtually identical to the public domain".
>
> Public domain 1) is a legal concept that is not recognized in all
> countries. 2) typically involves the author(s) effectively disowning
> their work and deliberately waiving any privileges of copyright,
> including those of required attribution.
>
> As a simple example: it is perfectly legal -- although arguably quite
> sleazy -- to incorporate code from a public domain project into a
> product and make no mention of it whatsoever. It's even legal (at
> least in the US) to say that you wrote and own everything in such a
> product, even if that's not true. That is not allowed under the BSD
> license.
>
> There are licenses that are designed to be "virtually identical to
> the public domain", such as the Creative Commons Zero license. The
> BSD/MIT licenses ain't that.
>
> -Rob
>
That's why I said *almost* virtually identical. Please, don't conflate
"almost virtually" with "exactly" on that very particular context.
Furthermore I was referring to the specific case at hand: the
practical significance of copyright enforcement for permissive
licenses. None of the legal technical differences you pointed are
relevant for that matter: it's a common practice to make the due
attributions in derivative works, even when based on public domain;
so the unique guarantee one gets with a permissive licensing, rather
than releasing into public domain, has no practical expressiveness.
--
,= ,-_-. =. Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro (oitofelix) [0x28D618AF]
((_/)o o(\_)) There is no system but GNU;
`-'(. .)`-' GNU Linux-Libre is one of its official kernels;
\_/ All software must be free as in freedom;
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