Re: GPL v3 survey site

Rodney Sparapani writes: What you can get fined for if the judge gets sufficiently annoyed at the waste of his time is called "frivolous". Other than pissing off the judge, as far as I know nothing in law is considered "silly". :-) Something like that is probably true (see below), but Jerry is right to be careful. (a) There's no problem in principle in having multiple licenses apply to different parts of the same collective work (indeed, the collective can have a separate license from any of the parts), and (b) remember we're talking about the Free Software Forcefeeding here. "Everybody has a right to use my software freely, as long as they conform to my way." The derivative authors *do not* have a choice of license if the original is copyleft. I suspect the real argument is that the ChangeLog is not an expressive Work in itself, but rather a collection of independent snippets, none of which is big enough to be a copyright issue (Ben's megalogs notwithstanding? I wonder...). Nor is the organization of those snippets copyrightable, any more than the alphabetical order in the telephone book. Bottom line is, I'll ask the FSF's license people. _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta