<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Gents,</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">This interesting discussion raises the
common and, it seems, most overlooked risk of open source software, free
software and public domain software reuse: Did the author have the
rights to grant under the license or to assign to the public domain? I
have to agree that the underlying public domain work would remain in the
public domain even if modified and redistributed under an open source license.
Indeed, we all understand that the work itself (unmodified) could
not be distributed under an open source license EVEN by the original author
herself where she previously and effectively dedicated the copyright to
the public domain. Ya gotta have a copyright to grant a copyright
license. </font>
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David M. Shofi<br>
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<td width=40%><font size=1 face="sans-serif"><b>"Alexander Terekhov"
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<br><tt><font size=2>On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 7:06 PM, Lawrence Rosen <lrosen@rosenlaw.com>
wrote:<br>
> Alexander,<br>
><br>
> This copyrighted email is hereby licensed under AFL 3.0. Copying this
email<br>
> in violation of those license terms is hereby prohibited.<br>
<br>
Only the new material (that you own) is licensed under AFL 3.0.<br>
Copying substantial portion of your email quoted below in violation of<br>
those license terms is ...<br>
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><br>
> Let me not to the marriage of true minds<br>
> Admit impediments. Love is not love<br>
> Which alters when it alteration finds,<br>
> Or bends with the remover to remove:<br>
> O no! it is an ever-fixed mark<br>
> That looks on tempests and is never shaken;<br>
> It is the star to every wandering bark,<br>
> Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.<br>
> Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks<br>
> Within his bending sickle's compass come:<br>
> Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,<br>
> But bears it out even to the edge of doom.<br>
> If this be error and upon me proved,<br>
> I never writ, nor no man ever loved.<br>
<br>
... NOT prohibited. Your copyright license doesn't cover that work<br>
because you don't own that material.<br>
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><br>
> Now, please, can we let this topic rest?<br>
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Why are you being so imprecise in formulating what is not allowed by<br>
your copyright license?<br>
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><br>
> /Larry Rosen<br>
> (along with this entirely gratuitous attribution to Shakespeare, who
has no<br>
> way at all under copyright law to force me to acknowledge him)<br>
><br>
> P.S. There is a public domain, but this email isn't in it.<br>
<br>
THAT HAS NO EFFECT ONE WAY OR THE OTHER ON PUBLIC DOMAIN STATUS OF THE<br>
PREEXISTING MATERIAL<br>
<br>
Attribution: HOUSE REPORT NO. 94-1476<br>
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regards,<br>
alexander.<br>
<br>
--<br>
"12/21/2007 ORDER TO EXTEND TIME FOR DEFENDANT...<br>
01/22/2008 ORDER TO EXTEND TIME FOR DEFENDANT...<br>
02/19/2008 ORDER TO EXTEND TIME FOR DEFENDAT(sic)...<br>
02/26/2008 ENDORSED LETTER addressed to Judge Laura Taylor Swain from<br>
Daniel B. Ravicher...<br>
02/27/2008 ORDER that Defendants Verizon Communications, Inc. has<br>
until March 14, 2008..."<br>
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-- 1:07-cv-11070-LTS aka Never Beginning "GPL Enforcement" case<br>
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