Licence which allows trivial conversion to undocumented.

David Johnson david at usermode.org
Fri Sep 29 02:05:04 UTC 2000


On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Dave  J Woolley wrote:

> 	[DJW:]  The part about documentation is that the licence
> 	is given to people who receive the software plus documentation.
> 	The anomaly is that anyone can recursively sub-license it 
> 	without supplying documentation, so, for all practical 
> 	purposes, it could simply say to anyone receiving the 
> 	software, without the added qualification
> 	of also receiving the documentation.

I got the impression that the license intended to explicitely cover
both the software and the documentation. Even with most OSS and FS
software, the documentation comes under different terms. By including
the documentation in the same license as the software, the licensor is
making it clear that one can also modify and redistribute the
documentation at will.

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David Johnson
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