Hyman Rosen wrote: > > On 3/9/2010 4:31 PM, Alexander Terekhov wrote: > > The Supreme Court of California. 159 Cal. 716, 115 P. 743 (1911). "The > > term 'provided' may or may not indicate a condition . . . it is often a > > nice question to determine whether it is a condition or a covenant and > > courts always construe similar clauses in a deed as covenants rather > > than as conditions, if they can reasonably do so . . ." > > <http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/opinions/08-1001.pdf> > The Artistic License states on its face that the document > creates conditions: "The intent of this document is to state > the _conditions_ under which a Package may be copied." > (Emphasis added.) The Artistic License also uses the traditional > language of conditions by noting that the rights to copy, modify, > and distribute are granted "provided that" the conditions are met. > Under California contract law, "provided that" typically denotes > a condition. > > Sounds like CAFC found the question easy to answer.
Q: If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? Judge HOCHBERG: Of course five. Abraham Lincoln: No, calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg! regards, alexander. P.S. "I'm insufficiently motivated to go set up a GNU/Linux system so that I can do the builds." Hyman Rosen <hyro...@mail.com> The Silliest GPL 'Advocate' P.P.S. "Of course correlation implies causation! Without this fundamental principle, no science would ever make any progress." Hyman Rosen <hyro...@mail.com> The Silliest GPL 'Advocate' -- http://gng.z505.com/index.htm (GNG is a derecursive recursive derecursion which pwns GNU since it can be infinitely looped as GNGNGNGNG...NGNGNG... and can be said backwards too, whereas GNU cannot.) _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
