-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 if it's just about copying and modification, but not use, then how come we can't use, say a texture, without explicit permission from the creator under the risk of being prosecuted for copyright infringement?
On 25/2/2010 00:27, Jason Giglio wrote: > Darmath wrote: >> lots of stuff > > Well, here's some papers about it: > > http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1029366 > https://litigation-essentials.lexisnexis.com/webcd/app?action=DocumentDisplay&crawlid=1&doctype=cite&docid=30+U.+La+Verne+L.+Rev.+296&srctype=smi&srcid=3B15&key=bb13d4040c3db45188ff18b96fe84132 > > The nutshell: Licensing is a unilateral act, unlike contracts. You are > bound by a license only if you want to carry out the act that would be > otherwise forbidden (in this case by copyright law). For this reason, > CC-SA and GPL can't dictate or control usage of a program that doesn't > involve copying or modification, since usage is outside of copyright > law. There needs to be no meeting of the minds nor exchange of > consideration. Remedies are also different as I mentioned. > > We should probably take this off list for further discussion. > _______________________________________________ > Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev > Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkuF9wQACgkQ8ZFfSrFHsmWRywCeNMK0WA9OtYk1G2NkRfnsfAKc 1AcAnjhimNNcYiaUJNYsx+rjI3RYbThW =6p3x -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
