"Benjamin M. A'Lee" <bma-li...@subvert.org.uk> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 12:18:07AM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > As you don't know what grants and what duties you have when dealing with > > free > > software, please try to inform yourself. You may get into trouble if you > > change > > things that are forbidden by law. > > > > Let me quote the license person from the board of directors from the > > OpenSource > > initiave: > > > > No OpenSource license gives you all grants you need to change anything > > in the source. If the authors or Copyright holders of a software like, > > they may always sue you. If you like to avoid being sued, play nicely > > with the Copyright holders. > > Uh, citation needed. "Giving you all grants you need to change anything > in the source" is practically the definition of an open-source licence, > with the exception of removing the original copyright and licence > notices.
I recommend you to read the Copyright law: http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/urhg/index.html There are rights that _cannot_ be given away. Jörg -- EMail:jo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin j...@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
