From jcowan@reutershealth.com Tue Mar 27 15:43:18 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_4); 27 Mar 2001 23:43:17 -0000 Received: (qmail 15694 invoked from network); 27 Mar 2001 23:43:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 27 Mar 2001 23:43:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.reutershealth.com) (204.243.9.36) by mta1 with SMTP; 27 Mar 2001 23:43:16 -0000 Received: from reutershealth.com (IDENT:cowan@[192.168.3.11]) by mail.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA22641; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 18:45:46 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3AC12625.2090500@reutershealth.com> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 18:45:41 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-22 i686; en-US; 0.8) Gecko/20010215 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: bob@RATTLESNAKE.COM Cc: rlpowell@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca, lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] jbofi'e version 0.36 released References: <20010327223944.B334@rrbcurnow.freeuk.com> <20010327165422.J11825@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan 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. -- There is / one art || John Cowan no more / no less || http://www.reutershealth.com to do / all things || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan with art- / lessness \\ -- Piet Hein