On Jan 17, 2007, at 2:25 PM, Hal Kaplan wrote:
> Fine, Ed. Copyright law does not work that way but I am not
> referring to copyright law. I am referring to licensing. You can
> "copyright" your relationship with a person by marriage,
No, you can't.
> but your marital relationship is not going to work out if you and
> your partner cannot come to terms on how you are going to live
> together.
Of course, but completely irrelevant to software licensing.
The only reason licensing is needed is because of copyright. Without
copyright, I can take Microsoft's code and do with it what I like,
and I can make as many copies as I want and sell them and keep all
the money for myself, or just give them away if I like. But copyright
prohibits me from doing that. The license I receive from an author
who holds the copyright is similarly bound by copyright law.
-- Ed Leafe
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