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authorP. J. McDermott <pjm@nac.net>2011-11-17 18:00:18 (EST)
committer P. J. McDermott <pjm@nac.net>2011-11-17 18:00:18 (EST)
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Add basic notes on copyright licenses & commerce.
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@@ -22,3 +22,28 @@ something on DRM maybe?
modern EULAs
limit free speech
allow developer to change software remotely without notice
+
+to add:
+FSF
+FSD
+Linux
+open source, Netscape
+
+one or both:
+commercial free software
+ many believe that money can't be made in open source and free software
+ logical fallacy, false exclusionary disjunct
+ if a license said that software can't be offered for a price
+ it would be non-free
+ ...
+copyright law and free software and open source licenses
+ freedom 0 isn't affected by copyright law
+ free sw licenses work only on copyright law, never on e.g. contract law
+ licenses must authorize (in U.S. law):
+ reproduction of copies of work
+ preparation of derivative works based upon work
+ distribution of copies of work
+ "public domain" troubles
+ license examples
+ copyleft vs. permissive
+ GPL licenses, BSD licences, Expat and X11 licenses, Apache license, etc.