Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

["linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)" <linux-os@analogic.com>]

On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Chris Friesen wrote:

> Daniel Hazelton wrote:
>> On Tuesday 04 September 2007 09:27:02 Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
>>
>>> Daniel Hazelton <dhazelton@enter.net> writes:
>>>
>>>> US Copyright law. A copyright holder, regardless of what license he/she
>>>> may have released the work under, can still revoke the license for a
>>>> specific person or group of people. (There are some exceptions, but they
>>>> do not apply to the situation that is being discussed)
>
> The OpenBSD policy page doesn't agree with you:
>
> "...That means that having granted a permission, the copyright holder
> can not retroactively say that an individual or class of individuals are
> no longer granted those permissions. Likewise should the copyright
> holder decide to "go commercial" he can not revoke permissions already
> granted for the use of the work as distributed, though he may impose
> more restrictive permissions in his future distributions of that work."
>
> http://www.openbsd.org/policy.html
>
>
> Chris
> -

There are other enforceability issues as well. For instance in the
US, Copyright Law applies as soon as something is written. So,
does Copyright Law apply if I write, "You cannot read this."
Of course, it's a trivial example. Revocation of a license to
read a work is absurd. Using this theory, once somebody's
written "work" has been distributed under some license, a
different license would likely be regarded as unenforceable
by a court.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.6.22.1 on an i686 machine (5588.30 BogoMips).
My book : http://www.AbominableFirebug.com/
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