Re: MTL license
Could you please not quote upside-down?
On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 02:35:05PM -0700, Joseph Lorenzo Hall wrote:
> As well, the fact that is is framed as a "license agreement" invokes
> contract law instead of pure copyright... in the U.S., contract law is
> different in every state and some even have gap-filling measures
> which, in a court of law, would add things to the license that even
> the licensor didn't intend (choice of venue changes this, but choice
> of venue provisions are about as non-free as it gets).
Well, I think choice of venue is non-free, but I don't think it's quite
that severe. "Send me $10 for every copy made" and "no redistribution
or modification of any kind" are restrictions I'd call "as non-free as
it gets"; it's somewhat of an exaggeration to put choice of venue on
that level.
--
Glenn Maynard
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