Chambers wrote:
> On 5/15/2009 9:13 AM, Darren New wrote:
>> A
>> license gives you permission to make copies, not copyright.
> 
> Speaking of licenses, my favorite definition of a license is "a promise 
> not to sue." :)

Surprisingly, laws work a lot better when you actually make them more like 
math. When you say "this law cancels that law", it works better than when 
you say "this law allows X" or "that law prohibits Y."  In part, because if 
you have "allows" then you have an implicit denial (the exception proves the 
rule). And if you have "prohibits" then it doesn't really prohibit - it just 
allows you to recover some sort of damages.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!

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