On Wednesday 14 August 2002 07:20 am, Russell Nelson wrote: > I like David's, because it's such a shot across the bows. > Unfortunately, his suggestion says nothing about modification > restrictions, such as the GPL's, or BitKeeper's.
That is because I wanted to limit the clause to what the user can do in the absence of a license. We already know that they need a license of some form before they can modify the software, but they shouldn't need one to use the software. In addition, modification is sufficiently addressed elsewhere in the OSD. p.s. I also wanted to ensure the right of first sale, right of criticism, and all that, but an enumeration of all the rights a user should possess would be extremely lengthy. -- David Johnson ___________________ http://www.usermode.org pgp public key on website -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3