On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 12:19 AM, Russ Nelson <nel...@crynwr.com> wrote: > Anthony writes: > > > > On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 2:57 AM, Russ Nelson <nel...@crynwr.com> wrote: > > > Mike N writes: > > > > Even a proper reversion script will cause much collateral damage > for > > > > the cases I'm aware of. > > > > > > The whole point behind having a license is to be able to sue people > > > who violate it. > > > > You've got it exactly backwards. The whole point of having a free > > license is to waive the right to sue people who follow it. > > Errrr, no. If you want to wave that right, then you put your work into > the public domain.
You seem to have missed "who follow it". > Oh, but wait, you're Anthony. You don't just celebrate Backwards Day, > you're working on Backwards Century. Why the personal attack? I wasn't calling you backwards, I was just saying that you had gotten a fact backwards. The purpose of a free license is to give permissions, not to take permissions away. If you want to sue people for violating your copyright, you don't need a license at all. If you want to sue people for not violating your copyright, you need an EULA. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
