[Foundation-l] Re-licensing

Mike Godwin mgodwin at wikimedia.org
Thu Jan 22 22:07:30 UTC 2009


Thomas Dalton writes:

>> So, online but on a different server is okay, but online when there's
>> an offline copy isn't? What is the legal distinction you're drawing
>> here? (I ask for the "legal distinction" because you are articulating
>> your concern in terms of what you purport to be violations of your
>> legal rights.)
>
> It all boils down to how you define "reasonable", and that's usually
> left to laymen, not lawyers.

If Anthony used the word "reasonable" in relation to this distinction,  
I missed it.  In any case, it's not forbidden for lawyers to have  
intuitions about what is reasonable. In general, lawyers have the same  
prerogatives as laymen in this regard.


--Mike






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