[WikiEN-l] [Wikitech-l] Re: Update to gfdl copyright notice needed

[Alex R.]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daniel Ehrenberg" <littledanehren at yahoo.com>

> And are you implying that, if I press "I agree" on a
> click-through license on software, then I don't have
> to follow it?

The license is binding on children. If it wasn't then 
children could not buy video games, videotapes,
books, etc. no one would sell it to them. Children
enter into contracts all the time.

> Keep in mind that, up to this SCO v. IBM lawsuit (a
> rare exception), no GNU license has ever been brought
> to court. And when it comes to the FDL, I think it is
> even less likely to be challenged since the
> competition for literature is not as fierce as in
> software.
Children also go to court to testify; of course a child
might be so young that he or she does not understand
what the truth means, but then there are many adults who
don't understand what copyright licenses mean or what
taking an oath in court means.
> 
We can certainly add text about minors to the Terms and
Conditions (maybe it should be called Submission
Standards, terms and conditions sounds too much like
contract boilerplate that no one may ever read). 
But getting permission from their parents? 

What about marital property? Should a wife get her 
husband's approval because he might later say that
she is wasting valuable marital property by releasing
it under the GFDL?

Alex756