On Sun, Oct 11, 1998 at 11:18:53PM +0200, Bart Schuller wrote: > Because *implicit* permission isn't good enough. By default *nothing* is > allowed. So every right the authors grant you had better be written down > in a license accompanying the software, otherwise one of the authors (or > sometimes even their employers) can later sue you.
But the default does not hold. After all they said the GPL the code. > In this particular case it is important to be explicit about the extra > permissions granted, because people might get the mistaken belief that > it is thus also ok to import other GPLed code into the project. I try talking them into making it explicit. Michael -- Dr. Michael Meskes | Th.-Heuss-Str. 61, D-41812 Erkelenz | Go SF49ers! Senior-Consultant | business: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Go Rhein Fire! Mummert+Partner | private: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Use Debian Unternehmensberatung AG | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | GNU/Linux!
