Re: Right to distribute modifications?
John Cowan wrote: AFAIK the free software community has always understood the right to distribute modifications to be implied by this license, but of course (as usual) no court has spoken, and so nobody can say for sure. RMS is being cautious, that's all. Then what differentiates the right to distribute the software with modifications from, say, the right to use the software with modifications (which relates to the FSF's freedom 0), to warrant explicit caution? -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3
Re: Right to distribute modifications?
Bjorn Reese scripsit: Then what differentiates the right to distribute the software with modifications from, say, the right to use the software with modifications (which relates to the FSF's freedom 0), to warrant explicit caution? Contracts are about trapping an agreement in a net of inherently ambiguous words. The more explicitness, the better. That's why (common-law) lawyers tend to use multiple synonyms, like give and bequeath, right, title, and interest, etc. in the hopes that what one word doesn't capture, another will. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all. There are no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful. --_The Hobbit_ -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3
Re: Right to distribute modifications?
Bjorn Reese scripsit: The license grants rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies. According to my understanding this includes the right to distribute modifications, as you've got the right to both modify and distribute. AFAIK the free software community has always understood the right to distribute modifications to be implied by this license, but of course (as usual) no court has spoken, and so nobody can say for sure. RMS is being cautious, that's all. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all. There are no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful. --_The Hobbit_ -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3
