Hello,
On 10/05/2012 01:04 AM, Rick Moen wrote:
Quoting Grahame Grieve (grah...@healthintersections.com.au):
well, ok, but on what grounds would copyright not apply?
I believe Larry was asserting his view that a software licence consists
solely of functional elements, and no expressive (artistic) elements (or
not enough that a judge would recognise copyright eligibility).
Even if this is true, someone aiming to re-use the license text for a
new license may not want to rely on it [1].
It seems better for the license steward to either explicitly state that
they regard the license text as functional and not copyrightable or to
just license the license text appropriately.
-- kuno / warp.
ps. [1] Especially when considered in an international context, I expect
a dutch court to regard a license text such as Apache v2 or GPLv2 to be
copyrightable, but IANAL.
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