[61673] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What do you want your ISP to block today?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Tue Sep 2 21:50:31 2003
To: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>
Cc: Vadim Antonov <avg@kotovnik.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 02 Sep 2003 13:34:10 PDT."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2003 21:47:39 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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On Tue, 02 Sep 2003 13:34:10 PDT, David Schwartz said:
> Umm, makers of free software have to do this too. Even people who place
> software in the public domain have to do this. This has nothing to do with
> compensation and has more to do with nuisance.
Umm.. if you explicitly put it in the public domain, you*can't* do it. You no
longer have a way to say "by copying this, you agree not to sue us down to our
skivvies". That's why the BSD and X11 distributions had copyrights at all - public
domain would probably have served their political goals just fine except for the
inability to disclaim liability by hanging it off the copyright (which they wouldn't
have if they put it in public domain).
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