Pamela Chestek scripsit: > This is one of my favorite subjects, whether to have a license you need > to know that it existed at the time you copied or not. I don't think so, > the copyright owner put the work out there with a promise not to sue, so > I don't know why I would need to be aware of the promise to claim the > benefit of it.
On my view, of course, you don't need to know, because meeting of the minds is a contract idea, and licenses are not contracts. The license is a bit more than a covenant not to sue, though: it's affirmative permission to do things, not merely a promise (which may or may not rise to a contract) not to try to punish the doers of those things. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan co...@ccil.org A male Jang appeared at my side. "Get a grip on yourself," he said. "Get a grip on your graks," I suggested. --Tanith Lee, Drinking Sapphire Wine _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org https://lists.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss