On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 02:43:01PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > > It's > > critically different from a copyleft, because there there isn't a > > pre-existing property right. > Actually, yes there is: it's called copyright. The default in copyright law > is that a derivative work can only be published with the argreement of the > work's actual author *and* the authors of all works of which it is a > derivative work. And that you have neither by default. Unless you accept this license, you may not release a derivative work. This is a very different scenario, where you could perform certain actions until you accepted the license. Your freedom has been reduced in a fundamental manner by this license. A copyleft license in no manner reduces your freedom; after accepting the license, you can do everything that you could do before you accepted the license (and you can also do some things that you couldn't). -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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