A new "use" clause in the OSD

David Johnson david at usermode.org
Tue Aug 6 17:28:35 UTC 2002


On Tuesday 06 August 2002 09:27 am, Lawrence E. Rosen wrote:
> My preference is for a clause that is more general and doesn't list only
> the things we can think of today:
>
>    OSD #10: No open source license may limit or restrict
>    a person's rights to use the software that would be
>    available in the absence of a license, including their
>    fair use rights under the copyright law.

I agree with using more general clauses. If you get specific then it implies 
that anything you happened to miss is permissible.

-- 
David Johnson
___________________
http://www.usermode.org
pgp public key on website
--
license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3



More information about the License-discuss mailing list