Re: I think the AL needs a rewrite

Chris Nandor <[email protected]> writes:

> If you are going to contact the Copyright Holder under the provisions of
> sections 3d and 4d, it would only be in reference to the Package as a
> whole, for which the stated Copyright Holder has complete authority to
> rule.  If you don't like it, you should not allow the Copyright Holder
> to include your code in their distribution.  There is an implicit
> agreement there.

I'd hate to argue that in court.  I think the chances are scarily high
that you'd lose, and the results of the precedent for other free software
projects that play fast and loose with implicit agreements are
frightening.

If you're arguing an implicit agreement, that means you have to convince a
court that you can read minds and know what the contributor was thinking
when they submitted their modifications.  Not the position you want to be
in.

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Russ Allbery ([email protected])             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>