Re: Some licensing questions regarding celestia

[tb@becket.net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)]

Don Armstrong <don@donarmstrong.com> writes:

> Once again: I am subscribed to -legal. Please follow debian list
> policy and refrain from Cc:'ing me.

Please use X-Followups-To or a similar tool if it matters that much to
you.  I can't promise I'll remember on every message.

> On Mon, 08 Sep 2003, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> > They are *grants of permission*, which is an existing
> > well-established category.  The closest traditional analog in the old
> > common law was permission to enter another's land.
> > 
> > Another way to put it is that they are enforceable promises not to
> > sue for copyright enfringement.
> 
> In all the instances where I'm aware of similar grants of permision
> and verbal promises being tested, they have been tested as if they
> were verbal contracts.

Well, you aren't that aware then.