From: John Max Skaller <skaller@ozemail.com.au>
To: Ocaml <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: License wars
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 02:31:40 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E315C5C.5050201@ozemail.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E2FC73D.1030003@baretta.com>
Alessandro Baretta wrote:
>> Any computer user must have read and understood the licence (or, less
>> bad than nothing, a digest) of the software it uses. This is pointless
>> to care of the ones that do not. Even if they come from the whole
>> majority, faults must not be agreed but fighted against.
>
>
> Besides, whether one reads it or not, one is bound by it.
I think you have it completely backwards.
There is no licence 'agreement'. I am not bound by
it, I have agreed to nothing.
It is completely the other way around.
Copyright may be applied to my use of software.
A 'licence' is a unilateral RELEASE from the
restrictions otherwise imposed by
copyright. And it is on my head to ensure that the
release is valid and authoritative (provably emnating
from the copyright holder) in case I am sued for
breach of copyright.
--
John Max Skaller, mailto:skaller@ozemail.com.au
snail:10/1 Toxteth Rd, Glebe, NSW 2037, Australia.
voice:61-2-9660-0850
-------------------
To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr
Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/
Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-24 15:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-16 10:30 [Caml-list] ANN: ChartPak - a data visualization library for the web Matt Gushee
2003-01-16 12:30 ` Mattias Waldau
2003-01-16 12:45 ` Alessandro Baretta
2003-01-16 12:51 ` Jérôme Marant
2003-01-20 13:55 ` Fabrice Le Fessant
2003-01-20 16:46 ` License wars (was Re: [Caml-list] ANN: ChartPak - a data visualization library for the web) Matt Gushee
2003-01-20 17:22 ` Brian Hurt
2003-01-22 16:57 ` [Caml-list] Re: License wars Michaël Grünewald
2003-01-23 10:43 ` Alessandro Baretta
2003-01-24 15:31 ` John Max Skaller [this message]
2003-01-20 19:49 ` [Caml-list] ANN: ChartPak - a data visualization library for the web Mattias Waldau
2003-01-20 20:37 ` Brian Hurt
2003-01-24 4:19 ` [Caml-list] Baby Steps (was: ChartPak - a data visualization library for the web) Oleg
2003-01-24 10:59 ` Michal Moskal
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.33.0301241322390.2036-100000@eagle.ancor.com>
2003-01-24 20:54 ` Michal Moskal
2003-01-24 5:33 ` [Caml-list] Re: License wars Matt Gushee
2003-01-24 8:46 ` Sven Luther
2003-01-24 11:16 ` Dmitry Bely
2003-01-24 11:28 ` Sven Luther
2003-01-24 11:31 ` Alessandro Baretta
2003-01-24 16:16 ` John Max Skaller
2003-01-24 15:49 ` John Max Skaller
2003-01-25 9:54 ` Michaël Grünewald
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=3E315C5C.5050201@ozemail.com.au \
--to=skaller@ozemail.com.au \
--cc=caml-list@inria.fr \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).