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FOSDEM: State of the GNUnion

FOSDEM: State of the GNUnion

Posted Feb 10, 2013 19:57 UTC (Sun) by kleptog (subscriber, #1183)
In reply to: FOSDEM: State of the GNUnion by michaeljt
Parent article: FOSDEM: State of the GNUnion

There are limitations to what you can do with a licence and I'm pretty sure that "allowing someone else to enforce the licence on your behalf" is in the not-possible list (though I wouldn't want to speak for all jurisdictions).

Copyright is fairly restricted. You fairly quickly come into the area of contract law. And a copyright assignment is just another kind of contract...


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