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Re: [lojban] jbofi'e version 0.36 released
Robert J. Chassell wrote:
It is a different kind of license, what the games theory people call a
`sucker license', such as the BSD license, that makes it possible for
one company
hereinafter Badco
to take Richard's work and prevent him and you and anyone
else from using a derivation of Richard's work,
From using a *specific* derivative of it, namely the one Badco wrote;
not from using *any* derivative of it. You can always do what
Stallman did with LMLisp: duplicate the changes yourself.
even if you are the
person making the changes and your changes are somewhat different from
theirs and independently.
If your changes are different from theirs and made independently, then
your work cannot be a derivative work of Badco's.
The BSD license does permit
that: taking even from the author.
It does not permit taking the author's work from the author.
And remember, if you ever get into this deeper, `derived work' is a
legal term -- it means what courts say it means...
Indeed. No public license has yet had to face a court test.
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