"Sean B. Palmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Jan 1, 2008 10:36 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > > A copyright license doesn't need to make anything explicit that > > is already explicit in copyright law. > > Okay. So is the preservation of copyright notices already explicit > in copyright law?
I don't know. My current understanding is "yes" to a first approximation. It would take actual lawyers to provide a more trustworthy answer on this one; and it's very likely the answer involves "it depends". > > I wonder how many other requirements that you care about in > > copyright law are entirely unexamined because you've not seen them > > explicated in any license text. > > Well, what other heuristic should I use? I can't justify the cost of > a lawyer for this, so I can only make the best assumptions that I > know how to make, and ask friends and people on debian-legal and so > on... It is to your credit that you do so, seriously. -- \ "I know you believe you understood what you think I said, but I | `\ am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I | _o__) meant." -- Robert J. McCloskey | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
