On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 03:45:56PM +0000, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote: > Yet another problem with your theory: what if the author is dead? I > cannot bind my heirs with a promise (unless I do something horribly > complicated with trusts and wills) but I expect my licences to remain > valid. > > It's an interesting theory, but it doesn't really fit with reality. U.S. copyright and contract law is optimized for cases where rich people are trying to retain wealth, not cases where anything in particular is done for the common weal (such as contributing things to the public domain). The thing only "laissez-faire" about U.S. capitalism is that rich individuals and corporations are free to shoot you in the back of the head and then send your next-of-kin an invoice for the labor and material costs incurred in carrying out your execution. -- G. Branden Robinson | Somewhere, there is a .sig so funny Debian GNU/Linux | that reading it will cause an branden@debian.org | aneurysm. This is not that .sig. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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