On 2/23/2010 9:48 AM, RJack wrote:
What you say *could* be true in a license. The critical word is
"precedent" which means "to precede". Unfortunately for the
Artistic License, you can't attribute a work you haven't yet received
permission to create. The very thing that is supposedly being
conditioned (the copyright permissions) is required to satisfy the
condition (attribution in the created work) -- which is impossible.
The same thing happens with respect to sec. 2 of the GPL.
Unfortunately for you, the court believed otherwise.
<http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/opinions/08-1001.pdf>
The clear language of the Artistic License creates conditions
to protect the economic rights at issue in the granting of a
public license. These conditions govern the rights to modify
and distribute the computer programs and files included in the
downloadable software package.
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