Re: [larsbj@ifi.uio.no: Re: copyright problem]

[Michael Meskes <meskes@usa.net>]

On Sun, Oct 11, 1998 at 11:18:53PM +0200, Bart Schuller wrote:
> Because *implicit* permission isn't good enough. By default *nothing* is
> allowed. So every right the authors grant you had better be written down
> in a license accompanying the software, otherwise one of the authors (or
> sometimes even their employers) can later sue you.

But the default does not hold. After all they said the GPL the code.

> In this particular case it is important to be explicit about the extra
> permissions granted, because people might get the mistaken belief that
> it is thus also ok to import other GPLed code into the project.

I try talking them into making it explicit.

Michael
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