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Re: simplest copyleft license for a wiki



Scripsit Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS <edmundo@rano.org>

> > Cf. the pine/UW attack which interpreted "right to modify and
> > distribute" as: You have the right to modify. You have the right to
> > distribute. You *don't* have the right to do both at once.

> So, you're saying that "and" on its own doesn't allow both at once. It
> must be an XAND :-)

No, I'm saying that "and" in this position is ambguous. "And/or" is
not.

> > This is exactly what the "and/or" wording seeks to defuse.

> But fails absolutely to do so ...

Rubbish.

-- 
Henning Makholm                             "... and that Greek, Thucydides"



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