Re: Jacobsen v. Katzer settled

[Hyman Rosen]

On 2/23/2010 9:48 AM, RJack wrote:
> What you say *could* be true in a license. The critical word is
> "precedent" which means "to precede". Unfortunately for the
> Artistic License, you can't attribute a work you haven't yet received
> permission to create. The very thing that is supposedly being
> conditioned (the copyright permissions) is required to satisfy the
> condition (attribution in the created work) -- which is impossible.
>
> The same thing happens with respect to sec. 2 of the GPL.

Unfortunately for you, the court believed otherwise.
<http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/opinions/08-1001.pdf>
    The clear language of the Artistic License creates conditions
    to protect the economic rights at issue in the granting of a
    public license. These conditions govern the rights to modify
    and distribute the computer programs and files included in the
    downloadable software package.