Re: Proposed Apache license & patent/reciprocity issues
Brian T. Sniffen said on Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 11:15:12AM -0500,:
> enumerated in US legislation -- they are alluded to in some laws, and
> mentioned in court cases, but intentionally underspecified.
'Law' is what the courts say it is. May be, the US legal system has a
different view of the copyright law.
> You fail to distinguish between modification of an instance of a work
> -- such as sawing a book in half, or writing notes in the margins
> -- and
The person who steals a book is guilty of larceny, not violation of
copyright. I am very surprised that you regard physical destruction
(ok. 'modification' if you want it that way) of the media on which a
copyrighted work is contained as modification for the purpose of
copyright.
> What you say here is exceptionally misleading.
??!!??
Please re-read http://www.fsf.org/press/mysql-affidavit.html,
paragraph 18. The important words are '...actually _subtracts_ from
the author's usual ...." and "... unilaterally permitted ..."
After that, do proceed to read the concluding sentence of para 36.
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