On 05/17/2013 09:24 PM, Richard Fontana wrote:
On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 03:31:24PM +0200, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
>> The following are not Derived Works: (i) Mere Aggregation;
>> (ii) a mere reproduction of My Work; and (iii) if My Work fails to
>> explicitly state an expectation otherwise, a work that merely makes
>> reference to My Work.
>
> Why the conditional in (iii)? Do we want to allow the licensor to say "works
> mentioning this Covered Work are considered Derived Works"? Is there an use
> case I'm missing?
This is a significant and suboptimally drafted change. Ideas for how
to draft it better (without massively increasing the size of the text)
are welcome.
"merely makes reference to" strikes me as pretty vague, but of course
there may be a obviously precise meaning that I'm oblivious to.
But is it not disturbing that a significant and suboptimally drafted
change is in a copyleft-next released version, as opposed to first being
discussed publicly?
Mike