Re: [ode] Comments on the OSR


Aaron Turner (aturner@linuxkb.org)
Wed, 26 Jan 2000 13:13:16 -0800 (PST)


On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Wade Hampton wrote:

> Richard Stallman wrote:
> >
> > I asked our lawyer what he thinks about whether making our licenses
> > some kind of official standard would make it reliable to refer to them.
> >
> > One difficulty is that the standards body might decide to make their own
> > changes in the license before adopting it. They are of course free
> > to write their own license, but we would probably stick to our version
> > for GNU software.
> I don't think they could modify it (except for maybe a removable header
> identifying it as a standard, or such). For it to really be usable as
> as standard and for compatibility, it would have to be adopted, as is,
> in its entirity. The "standard" version should be identical in all
> respects to yours (with the possible exception of some header text
> that is not part of the actual license).

I believe if you copywrite your license (or any document for that matter),
others can not modify it without your permission. At least that is what
I've been told in the past by lawyer types. YMMV.

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