On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 01:57:08PM -0700, Mark Rafn wrote: > On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Branden Robinson wrote: > > I hope the copyright holder realizes that this restriction is > > unenforceable under copyright law if the source code and documentation > > are rewritten such that they are no longer derivative works. > > I don't disagree, but I think I'm missing something WRT the reason for > your comment. It never crossed my mind that a license author would expect > such a restriction to apply to original works. In this case, it even says > "Derivative works must...". I'm not convinced that the author of the blurb in questions understands "derivative works" the same way I do. His stance seems considerably more militant than even a fairly strong reading of copyright law would permit. -- G. Branden Robinson | Good judgement comes from Debian GNU/Linux | experience; experience comes from branden@debian.org | bad judgement. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Fred Brooks
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