Re: DFSG vs Pine's legal notices: where exactly is the gotcha?

[David Turner <novalis@novalis.org>]

On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 14:45, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> > Oh, I remember this.  The sophists at UWash claim that:
> > 
> > "Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its
> > documentation for any purpose and without fee to the University of
> > Washington is hereby granted,"
> > 
> > does not mean that you can modify and then distribute.
> 
> Unfortunately, it turns out that the UWash lawyers were right about
> the way these clauses are understood by the courts; it sucks, but
> there it is.  They didn't create the distinction, they just decided to
> use it.

Which courts?  Please cite a case.

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