Advertising Clauses in Licenses

Wed Feb 13 15:56:41 UTC 2002

Forrest J. Cavalier III writes:
 > Russell Nelson <nelson at crynwr.com> wrote (in part)
 > 
 > > There is much in the OSD which is insufficiently explicit. For
 > > example, we have maintained that there are no possible restrictions
 > > a license could put on users, because there is no possible mechanism
 > > one could use to constraint them, because no approved license can
 > > require that the user execute a license (OSD#7).
 > 
 > I think it is a problem that "execute a license" is not defined.
 > 
 > As far as I can tell, the GPL is indeed a license. And making
 > a modified version, or distributing a copy, binds you to the
 > license. Isn't that executing a license?
You could argue that. We haven't done that, though. Instead, we
consider that you are accepting the permissions granted to you by the
copyright holder.
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