[Gllug] Star office

David Damerell damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Mon Nov 26 11:28:25 UTC 2001


On , 24 Nov 2001, Nix wrote:
>On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Richard Cohen moaned:
>>As far as I know, SO6 will be under the same license (possibly give or take
>>some legal crap, but same effect) as SO5.2 - free for any use,
>(which the license can't restrict anyway, unless you hold to the legal
>insanity that any use requires a copy and is therefore bound by
>copyright law, which is obvious garbage)

As far as anyone knows, in the EU, this isn't even a legal insanity;
it's a fiction existing only in the minds of software companies.

[I suspect Nix knew that all along, but perhaps it was less obvious to
others...]

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David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?

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