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Re: OSD && DFSG - different purposes



On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 02:49:52PM -0500, Russell Nelson wrote:
> Thomas, a license is a contract.

No, it is not (necessarily).  People can contract with respect to all
sorts of things, but the scope of copyright is explicitly limited under
Title 17 of the United States Code, and likely in other countries as
well.

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G. Branden Robinson                |    Somebody once asked me if I thought
Debian GNU/Linux                   |    sex was dirty.  I said, "It is if
branden@debian.org                 |    you're doing it right."
http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |    -- Woody Allen

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