[pp.int.general] Trifle: wiki license & stuff

[Jouni Snellman]

Yes John that's the billion dollar question. Basically individuals are free
to agree how they share programs or music or whatever with one another.
License terms are just a message telling you how the rightholder would like
the work to be used (or more precisely, not used).

The idea is that before you get the work you AGREE with whoever you get the
work from with the license terms - in other words you have a contract. This
is of course stuff that takes place in lawyers' heads and nowhere else. But
this is the only logical way to declare everything except industry approved
material "illegal" and to blame it on each individual user. Jouni

On 6/24/07, John Nilsson <john.nilsson at piratpartiet.se> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 11:50 +0200, Jan Huwald wrote:
> > For 1. I suggest omitting any information about licenses. This because
> of what
> > Jouni said and our mission itself of course.
> > For 2. I suggest public domain.
> You can't put works in the public domain according to Swedish law. The
> only thing that protects the user then is the promise not to sue. And
> that won't protect you if the rights are transferred to someone else or
> if the state decides to sue for some reason.
>
> A public license, however, seems like a better legal protection.
>
> How is a license, a contract, by the way? The licensee doesn't agree to
> anything.
>
> Regards,
> John
>
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