Re: Ocean and the search for a Music Framework

[Marco Scheurer]

On Mar 4, 2004, at 9:03 AM, Jeff Teunissen wrote:

> Marco Scheurer wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> > Yes, but as we found out earlier that would be a license issue, not a
> > copyright issue. There could perfectly be stuff copyrighted by NeXT or
> > you in a package licensed by Stanford if it was contributed by NeXT or
> > you.
>
> There seems to be some amount of misunderstanding here.
>
> There's really no such thing as a license issue. If the permissions 
> granted
> (or more likely, if the conditions under which the permissions are 
> granted)
> under two licenses are in conflict, then it is not a "license issue", 
> it's a
> "copyright infringement". [...]

No misunderstanding: if you distribute software without permission (ie 
a proper license to do so), you can be sued for copyright infringement.

My point was that if you've got a proper license, it does not matter if 
the copyright belongs to X or to Y. The fact that you can find 
"Copyright NeXT, all rights reserved" in a file is not a problem in 
itself. It becomes a problem only if you don't have the rights (given 
by a license) to distribute.

marco