[Free-sklyarov-uk] Dmitry Released on Bail

[Edward Welbourne]

On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Jason Clifford wrote:
> I think I'll ask the author if I can use some of his work in mine.
> That will make it a lot easier to produce something of value.

A basic tenet of the open-source movement, demonstrated in practice ;^>

One of the costs of our copyright system is that you aren't guaranteed
the right to do this - you're creating a derivative work, so need the
author's permission before you can publish it.  No matter how well the
restraint is justified, the cost remains: some things will be done less
well than they might have been, for want of permission to re-use some of
someone else's work.  For copyright to [be shown to] be in the public
interest, it must [be shown to] yield benefits sufficient to more than
balance its costs.

Fortunately, authors have the right to waive that cost and, in the
present case, it looks plausible that the original author will be more
concerned to help you produce as good document as possible than to
restrain you ;^)

	Eddy.