Alex Hudson wrote:
This is guidance issued to museums. And it doesn't support your position very well, apart from the fact the language is rather loose.
They seem to consider works of art the same way as software, but I digress. I'm willing to accept that copyright permissions can be granted via licenses, despite most of such grants occuring within the context of a contract.
My position about the GPL is still reserved, I will evaluate the points of it comparing it to the Canadian contract law and the Rome/Berne laws and see if it truly qualifies as a license.
part of a contract: that's not the case; Quebec's civil code doesn't require it, although the rest of Canada does. Quebec is influenced by
I understand Quebec's situation, they are always a special case in Canada and I generally excluded them. (Though a Deed in the rest of Canada always does not require mutual consideration).
Note, of interest to the SCO thing, this line I got from the Canada copyright act:
"(3) For the purposes of this Act, other than in respect of infringement of copyright, a work or other subject-matter is not deemed to be published or performed in public or communicated to the public by telecommunication if that act is done without the consent of the owner of the copyright."
Can a company claim that it didn't give itself permission to distribute?