Free documentation licenses

[John Cowan]

On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Rick Moen wrote:

> At work, I've tried to explain the matter by saying it's best to think
> of a composite work as not _having_ a licence, per se:  The individual
> modules bear licences.  The resulting composite, then, either is or is not 
> legally distributable, depending on how those licence terms interact.

Well, that's not the whole truth either.  I could take a bunch of
BSD modules, create a derivative work, and license the result under
the GPL.  Or under a proprietary license, for that matter.

Of course, this is somewhat pointless, since you could do exactly
the same thing with the same modules and license it under a different
license.

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John Cowan                                   cowan at ccil.org
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