Re: Datalink Licence Question
On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 08:16:09PM -0500, Steaphan Greene wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 10:30:58PM +0100, Ralf Treinen wrote:
> > Right to modify is not granted, which is against DFSG #3.
>
> Must it explicitly be given? I ask this not in an attempt to argue with
> you, but simply to try to better understand these kinds of license
> (spelled correctly this time ;) issues.
Rights must be granted explicitely, the default is that all rights
are retained. However, it is possible that the author of the licence
just forgot to grant this permission (I have already seen this), hence it
might be worth contacting the upstream author about this point.
-Ralf.
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