[Foundation-l] RfC: License update proposal

[Michael Snow]

Ray Saintonge wrote:
> Michael Snow wrote:
>   
>> Requirements like that (the US used to 
>> require a copyright notice) have been stripped away as an unreasonable 
>> burden on authors.
>>     
> I don't think that that was the reason.  The publishers would be the 
> ones to make sure that the notice was there anyway. Like abandoning the 
> requirement that registration was a precondition to copyright 
> protection, it was a consequence to acceding to international treaties 
> which demanded that copyright vest automatically in the author.  The 
> author could not lose his rights out of ignorance.
>   
I'm aware of the background behind the change. I don't find any of it 
inconsistent with saying the requirement was deemed an unreasonable 
burden on authors, those are simply some of the arguments why it was 
unreasonable.

--Michael Snow