Re: Licenses for non-software entities
Hi,
>>"Drake" == Drake Diedrich <Drake.Diedrich@anu.edu.au> writes:
Drake> I don't have any philosophical objections. From a practical
Drake> point of view adding a new area is quite a bit of work,
Drake> distributed among a lot of people.
We are already thinking about the package pool and a revolving
pre-reease idea, which may need extensive work on archives
anyway. This can be done simultaneously.
Drake> Aren't licenses and copyright notices a special case
Drake> legally anyway?
Nope. In any case, no court really has jusrisdiction over
where we stick these documents on our archive sites.
Drake> I've heard they are not covered by copyright (you can take a
Drake> license, make minor changes, and use the new license for your
Drake> own work). The modified license would be invalid for the
Drake> original work.
You have heard incorrectly. The GPL comes with this immutable
license:
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GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
Version 2, June 1991
Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
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manoj
--
The idea of man leaving this earth and flying to another celestial
body and landing there and stepping out and walking over that body
has a fascination and a driving force that can get the country to a
level of energy, ambition, and will that I do not see in any other
undertaking. I think if we are honest with ourselves, we must admit
that we needed that impetus extremely strongly. I sincerely believe
that the space program, with its manned landing on the moon, if
wisely executed, will become the spearhead for a broad front of
courageous and energetic activities in all the fields of endeavour of
the human mind - activities which could not be carried out except in
a mental climate of ambition and confidence which such a spearhead
can give. Dr. Martin Schwarzschild, 1962, in "The History of Manned
Space Flight"
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> <http://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/>
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