Alex Perry wrote: > There is a subtle distinction, which essentially means that, since > you do still have the copyright, people who retrieve the code also > have the right to sue you.
It's even more subtle: the right to sue you doesn't go with the copyright. The copyright is a right that *you* have to restrict distribution. The right to sue for damages is someone else's, and is inherent (with lots of legislative exceptions). Basically, regardless of what you do with your copyright: if you wrote the code, it's your "fault". This is why the GPL has its warranty clause, and why commercial licenses always have the limitation of liability clause. Andy -- Andrew J. Ross NextBus Information Systems Senior Software Engineer Emeryville, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nextbus.com "Men go crazy in conflagrations. They only get better one by one." - Sting (misquoted) _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
