John Cowan wrote:
"Consider RFC 1988 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1988.txt)
which explicitly labels itself a conditional grant. Although the grant is for patent
rights rather than copyright rights, it seems to me essentially analogous to (but not
an example of, of course) an OSL. I see no r
Lawrence E. Rosen wrote:
> I must admit that,
> even though I am an attorney, I have never understood the distinction
> between a software license and a contract.
Certainly there can be no doubt that some software licenses, Microsoft
EULAs, for example, are contracts or they are nothing. Whet
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 02:34:17PM -0700, Lawrence E. Rosen wrote:
> which describe two different types of contracts.) I must admit that,
> even though I am an attorney, I have never understood the distinction
> between a software license and a contract. Can anyone on this list cite
> any legal
I've been following the discussion about the RealNetworks' RTSP Proxy
License and the question about whether a license can restrict "use" as
opposed to copying, creating derivative works or distributing those
copies and derivative works.
Copyright law does not restrict use of an authorized copy.
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