Henning Makholm wrote:
Scripsit Raul Miller <moth@debian.org>You might want to add a general statement about optional clauses which require release-time steps from the "author", which would cause problems if invoked, but which haven't been invoked.I had hoped that the general approach would make this unnecessary - the text ought to be framed such that it speaks only of the freedom of the actual license grant made by the author. It does not even [1] consider the question of a generic license *text* being free or not.
Maybe an explicit statement of this point would be a useful addition, possibly in the introduction?
" The /license/ means the authors' act of granting of basic rights and possibly other rights on specific conditions."
" The /license/ means the authors' act of granting of basic rights and possibly other rights on specific conditions. Note that the /license/ is the terms of the /license text/ as interpreted by the author, _not_ the terms of the /license text/ as interpreted by any third-party. Any /license text/, even if free when interpreted in the most common manner, may be interpreted by the author in such a way as to make the /license/ non-free. "
[1] I.e.: if it does it is a bug.
-- Lewis Jardine lewisjardine@tiscali.co.uk