Ben Finney wrote: > I hope I've explained above that it's not the *license* that does > this, but copyright law itself. You, as copyright holder in your work, > are free to choose license terms and put an appropriate copyright > notice in your files when you distribute them. If you grant permission > to redistribute at all, it's copyright law that requires that notice > to be included in any redistributions of that work until you > explicitly give permission to the contrary.
One case where this could become problematic is when permission is granted to create derivative works. If the derivative work can be distributed in binary-only form, then the copyright notices in the source code become irrelevant. In such a case, a requirement like article 2 of the BSD license to put a notice in the documentation would be a good idea. Arnoud -- Arnoud Engelfriet, Dutch & European patent attorney - Speaking only for myself Patents, copyright and IPR explained for techies: http://www.iusmentis.com/ Arnoud blogt nu ook: http://blog.iusmentis.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
