On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 08:57:26AM -0500, Walter Landry wrote: > Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com> wrote: > > This sort of stuff is really not the domain of copyright licenses. We > > encourage you to avoid imposing such non-copyright-related restrictions in > > copyright licenses, because it's error-prone. But if you must, you need to > > write the restrictions *very* carefully. For instance, I believe the > > following is OK: "As a condition of distributing this work or derivative > > works thereof, you must not include statements in the colophon unless you > > believe them to be true." > > Wouldn't that rule out satire? It would. I disagree with Nathanael here. Moreover, it's a bitch to prove whether someone believes something to be true. If it were easy, George W. Bush would be the first President actually turned out of office by Congress. -- G. Branden Robinson | Organized religion is a sham and a Debian GNU/Linux | crutch for weak-minded people who branden@debian.org | need strength in numbers. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Jesse Ventura
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