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
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
(To the folks on the license-discuss list.) As you may know,
Perl is currently undergoing a rewrite. As part of this
rewrite licensing is being reviewed, and we are attempting
to come up with an Artistic License that is (*ahem*) on
somewhat better grounds than the current one. This is my
David Johnson wrote:
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Ben Tilly wrote:
(To the folks on the license-discuss list.) As you may know,
Perl is currently undergoing a rewrite. As part of this
rewrite licensing is being reviewed, and we are attempting
to come up with an Artistic License that is
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