[ox-en] Re: Keyword: Free Software Licences
- From: Michael Bauwens <michelsub2003 yahoo.com>
- Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 07:02:59 -0700 (PDT)
Keyword: Free Software Licences
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* Licenses are contracts
Just the usual note: Licenses aren't contracts:
1) You don't have to agree to them.
That's exactly what defines a contract
2) The restrictions are imposed by copyright law.
3) The license can not impose restrictions not in
the law. It can only
reduce the restrictions as defined by the law.
Yes, it can impose restrictions not in copyright law,
that's exactly what a contract is about, and what the
GPL and CC licenses are about, to create restrictions
on the private appropriation of the common
The P2P Foundation researches, documents and promotes peer to peer alternatives.
Wiki and Encyclopedia, at http://p2pfoundation.net; Blog, at http://blog.p2pfoundation.net; Newsletter, at http://integralvisioning.org/index.php?topic=p2p
Basic essay at http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=499; interview at http://poynder.blogspot.com/2006/09/p2p-very-core-of-world-to-come.html; video interview, at http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2006/09/29/network_collaboration_peer_to_peer.htm
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