Jim Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Including a copy of the license with the
work is vital so that
everyone who gets a copy of the program can know what his rights are.
Here's what Eben Moglen has got to say :
"The copyright status accorded to each author of a computer program, the
exclusive right to control copying, modification, and initial distribution of
copies. Under US Copyright law, that's all there was, exclusively vested in the
author. What the author then wanted was to give the power to copy and modify
away. To remove exclusivity, and to provide to others what the statute gave
exclusively to him or her. With respect to distribution, the only principle
necessary in order to protect sharing was to say "if you redistribute, whether
modified or unmodified, use these permissions and no other."
The result of which was to ensure that downstream, if we may begin to adopt the
riparian analogy, downstream from each maker, everything would float, freely
available for further copying and modification, and each party redistributing
to the stream was compelled to redistribute under those, and no other, rules.
By honeycombing copyright in other words, by returning to the user some, but
not absolutely all of the exclusive rights vested in the author under copyright
law, the social artefacts desired (the freedom to copy, modify, and share)
could be ensured at the full strength that copyright law ever ensures the
author's rights. No further contractualisation, no further compulsion, no
further form of legal coercion is necessary but a determination to enforce
copyright for the benefit of sharing."
--
Complete link is at
http://ia301337.us.archive.org/1/items/EbenMoglenLectureEdinburghJune2007text/scl2007_eben_moglen.html
Its worth reading. Forcing a public contribution to remain afloat is something
worth considering seriously.
CK Raju
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