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Re: Endorsements (was Re: GPL compatibility of DFCL)



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On Sat, 15 Jun 2002, Branden Robinson wrote:

>On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 05:51:23PM -0500, Chris Lawrence wrote:
>> Wouldn't the endorsements issue be best resolved by licensing the
>> endorsements separately from the rest of the document?
>
>Names are not subject to copyright protection, and not everyone has the
>money or inclination to trademark his or her name.

True enough, but what if they were legally binding electronic signatures?  
Let someone try to attach a signature where it wasn't supposed to be and 
watch them go to jail PDQ....

>I'm not crazy about drawing any more extra-copyright concepts into the
>license than I have to.



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