Peter Constable said on Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 01:09:32AM +0000,: > > > a claim of IPR of any kind, and unhindered use are incompatible. > > Are you saying that in your capacity as an IPR lawyer? ;-)
No. I am no longer a laweyr for past 5 years, I am in employment. > If the owner of IP grants unhindered use, they are not incompatible. Definitely, you are correct. Question is, is such an explicit permission necessary? If I call myself "Mahesh", do I need to grant an explicit license to enable you to address me as "Mahesh" in a public forum? If "Mahesh" was substituted with a symbol, would it make any differentce? There is no need, IMHO. Philippe was suggesting otherwise, in spite of Govt. of India's proposal. > Of course, the statement also implicitly assumes that unhindered > use is what is desirable. It may be in some situations, but not in > others. -- Mahesh T. Pai || http://[paivakil|fizzard].blogspot.com Man's most judicious trait, is a good sense of what not to believe. --Euripides
