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Re: More FSF hypocrisy


From: Alexander Terekhov
Subject: Re: More FSF hypocrisy
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:24:27 +0100

Hyman Rosen wrote:
> 
> Alexander Terekhov wrote:
> >>      Copyright licenses are designed to support the right to exclude;
> > Uhmm. Copyright licenses are designed to support the right to share the
> > copyrights with other parties (licensees). This is completely opposite
> > to the exclusion. The above just highlights the degree of mental
> > disorder exhibited by the CAFC in that ruling.
> 
> Nonsense, of course. Were the rights holders not interested in the
> right to exclude, they would release the work into the public domain.

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode

"2. Waiver. To the greatest extent permitted by, but not in
contravention of, applicable law, Affirmer hereby overtly, fully,
permanently, irrevocably and unconditionally waives, abandons, and
surrenders all of Affirmer's Copyright and Related Rights and associated
claims and causes of action, ...

3. Public License Fallback. Should any part of the Waiver for any reason
be judged legally invalid or ineffective under applicable law, then the
Waiver shall be preserved to the maximum extent permitted taking into
account Affirmer's express Statement of Purpose. In addition, to the
extent the Waiver is so judged Affirmer hereby grants to each affected
person a royalty-free, non transferable, non sublicensable, non
exclusive, irrevocable and unconditional license to exercise Affirmer's
Copyright and Related Rights in the Work (i) in all territories
worldwide, (ii) for the maximum duration provided by applicable law or
treaty (including future time extensions), (iii) in any current or
future medium and for any number of copies, and (iv) for any purpose
whatsoever, including without limitation commercial, advertising or
promotional purposes (the "License"). The License shall be deemed
effective as of the date CC0 was applied by Affirmer to the Work."

How is the above "Public License Fallback" copyright license supporting
the right to exclude, silly?

See also

http://opensource.org/licenses/fair.php
http://opensource.org/licenses/isc-license.txt
http://opensource.org/licenses/bsl1.0.html

How are these copyright licenses supporting the right to exclude, idiot?

regards,
alexander.

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