*under US law*. The equivalents of fair use elsewhere are often
much more limited. If you read the Berne treaty, you'll see that
it's pretty vague about that. Perhaps you need to add a choice
of law (but not of venue) to your licence?
The last sentence made me think you thought I was talking
James William Pye wrote:
[Sent to license-discuss as another letter, and please CC me.]
It's longer, but, all in all, I think it makes it a better license:
The exercise and enjoyment of the rights granted by authorship
is authorized provided that this instrument is retained
On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 05:00 -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
This paragraph reaches a level of
opacity normally requiring ten pages of licesne text.
Even looking at glass at the right angle and with the right lighting can
make it look opaque. ;)
1. What are the rights granted by authorship? I
On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 10:42:02AM -0700, James William Pye wrote:
Besides that, a normal person would probably ask themselves questions
such as Does an author have the right to read his/her own works?, well
most certainly.
I think you are deeply confused as to the nature of copyright. An
I think you are deeply confused as to the nature of copyright.
That's nice.
You didn't say that. And you could be more specific by saying what
isn't limited.
It was an example.
I really don't think so.
Well, you lost that court battle.
What court battle? How so? Because you said so? Why
Well, I can name one minor problem of the MIT license: it requires
that
the license text be preserved. For most uses, this isn't a problem; but
in the case where you're using bits of code under the license and releasing
binaries, it's odd to carry along in your documentation a paragraph about
[Sent to license-discuss as another letter, and please CC me.]
It's longer, but, all in all, I think it makes it a better license:
The exercise and enjoyment of the rights granted by authorship
is authorized provided that this instrument is retained with
substantial
On Wed, 04 May 2005, James William Pye wrote:
[Sent to license-discuss as another letter, and please CC me.]
It's longer, but, all in all, I think it makes it a better license:
In the future, set Mail-Followup-To: to advertise this fact. (Set)
The exercise and enjoyment of the
.name? I'm surprised anyone can use that TLD with a straight face. :)
On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 09:28:12PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote:
I'm really not sure what this license actually improves though, since
the MIT license specifically grants any privilege that can be
excercised by those who are
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