Russ Nelson wrote: > I hear a lot of whistling past the graveyard here. As people point out, > it's never happened yet, and so it never will happen. Not a cause for > concern; move along, nothing to see here.
Russ, among the things I worry about in FOSS, moral rights are among the least worrisome. I'd almost welcome litigation about this issue so that we can expunge "morality" from "software". If you want to worry about copyright law, consider 17 USC 203. [1] Tell me what you experience as you drive over that bridge.... /Larry [1] http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/203 Lawrence Rosen Rosenlaw & Einschlag, a technology law firm (www.rosenlaw.com) 3001 King Ranch Rd., Ukiah, CA 95482 Office: 707-485-1242 -----Original Message----- From: Russ Nelson [mailto:nel...@crynwr.com] Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2012 7:32 AM To: license-discuss@opensource.org Subject: Re: [License-discuss] Can copyrights be abandoned to the public domain? John Cowan writes: > Russ Nelson scripsit: > > > And yet we know that bridges collapse. Is it reasonable to take steps > > against bridges collapsing? We (mostly) don't build bridges out of > > wood (software from moral rights countries), but instead out of steel > > and concrete (countries where people cannot retroactively change the > > license on open source software). > > Has anyone tried to revoke their (or their predecessor's) license > and lost in court? That's something different. I know that there's a theory which says that copyright permissions, even if granted "irrevokably", can be withdrawn. That's not what I'm talking about here. I'm talking about moral rights, where you can put something under an open source license which (at least in our theory) allow changes without limit and yet the law of the country where moral rights exist allows the copyright holder to *prohibit* changes without limit. I hear a lot of whistling past the graveyard here. As people point out, it's never happened yet, and so it never will happen. Not a cause for concern; move along, nothing to see here. -- --my blog is at http://blog.russnelson.com Crynwr supports open source software 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315-600-8815 Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | Sheepdog _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
