Re: Licenses for non-software entities
On Sat, Aug 15, 1998 at 12:51:52PM +0100, Jules Bean wrote:
> RMS has been heard to say something (this came up on -devel or -policy
> shortly after I became a maintainer, a month or two ago) claiming that you
> can copy any pieces of legal text. Marcus has promised to post here
> shortly explaining that, I think.
Done.
> My step-father is a lawyer, in the UK, and he says that there is no
> special exclusion for copyright on licenses - i.e. licenses can be
> copyrighted, and that copyright is enforceable. I'll speak to him again
> about it, but that was definitely the story last time I asked..
Well, the copyright as a whole, yes. But be sure to ask for the legal text,
the exact terms and conditions. I remember reading the licenses of MS, IBM,
Corel and other products. They all were very similar wrt the legal text.
Thank you,
Marcus
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