Legal soundness comes to open source distribution

Nick Moffitt nick at zork.net
Fri Aug 2 19:13:14 UTC 2002


begin  Lawrence E. Rosen  quotation:
> Then how about a provision of the OSD that reads something like the
> following:
> 
>   An open source license cannot restrict any fair
>   use rights that would be available for a copyrighted
>   work in the absence of a license.

	And which country's definition of fair use are you planning on
adopting?

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