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Re: free licensing of TEI Guidelines



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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