Re: GNU FDL 1.2 draft comment summary posted, and RFD

[Walter Landry <wlandry@ucsd.edu>]

Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> wrote:
> * This is a license, not a law.
> * This text should go without saying, but it doesn't if you read various
>   judicial decisions on copyright.
> * It's here as a reminder to copyright holders that they serve the
>   public, not the other way around.
> * It's a reminder to U.S. judges, should this license ever come under
>   judicial review, that the progress of the Useful Arts and Sciences
>   (may) justify copyright, not the other way around.

I think my point was that these reminders were not very useful with
the DMCA, so they won't be useful here.  They also make the license
longer and more confusing.

Regards,
Walter Landry
wlandry@ucsd.edu


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