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).
<br><br>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
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">John Nilsson</b> <<a href="mailto:john.nilsson@piratpartiet.se">john.nilsson@piratpartiet.se</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 11:50 +0200, Jan Huwald wrote:<br>> For 1. I suggest omitting any information about licenses. This because of what<br>> Jouni said and our mission itself of course.<br>> For 2. I suggest public domain.
<br>You can't put works in the public domain according to Swedish law. The<br>only thing that protects the user then is the promise not to sue. And<br>that won't protect you if the rights are transferred to someone else or
<br>if the state decides to sue for some reason.<br><br>A public license, however, seems like a better legal protection.<br><br>How is a license, a contract, by the way? The licensee doesn't agree to<br>anything.<br><br>
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