On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 09:44:18 -0400 Jeremy Hankins wrote:
> This license is Copyright (C) 2003 Lawrence E. Rosen. All rights
> reserved. Permission is hereby granted to copy and distribute this
> license without modification. This license may not be modified
> without the express written permission of its copyright owner.
This brings up the question (once again): is a legal text, such as a
copyright license, copyrightable? In which jurisdictions?
I know that, of course, people other than copyright holders of a given
work *cannot* change the license _applied_ to that work.
But can they pick the license text and modify it in order to create
_another_ license (with different license name)?
Discussions about the GNU GPL preamble and the GPL FAQ[1] seem to
suggest that legal text is not considered copyrightable.
[1] compare <http://www.fsf.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#ModifyGPL>
and copyright notice in <http://www.fsf.org/licenses/gpl.txt>
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