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2000-09-16 Thread kmself
Posted today to CNI-Copyright. Australian law. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc.http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks!

Re: Another pass at redrafting the Artistic License

2000-09-16 Thread David Johnson
On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Ben Tilly wrote: My view of "proper" OSS and FS licenses is that they grant additional permissions to the user beyond those offered by copyright, but take away none of the rights of the user that copyright allows. You can give but you can't take away. Then this

Re: Another pass at redrafting the Artistic License

2000-09-16 Thread David Johnson
On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Ben Tilly wrote: I have been told by lawyers that you can say it, but you cannot necessarily enforce the rules. For instance I was just told (and find believable) that statements about, "You cannot represent this as your own unless it is, and cannot the copyright