Re: Ada 83 Booch components

[Vincent Marciante <marciant@li.net>]

Robert Dewar wrote:
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> Well here you have to be careful. If the copyright holder
> publishes a general license, then that's fine, but what I
> was warning of here is that it is not good enough to read
> on CLA a message from A saying that B has said it is OK!

Well, just for the record, noone who responded stating that they do have
access to the components has emailed me a copy.  
I wonder if this warning was the cause or may it was simply obvious that
that would be a completely wrong thing to do.  ;)

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> If you meet Joe in the street, and he tells you, sure, go ahead
> and copy X (in which he holds a copyright interest), and there
> is no evidence of any kind of this interchange, and no apparent
> reason for Joe to have given this permission, Joe would likely
> prevail in a subsequent course of copyright action (your defence
> that you thought Joe had given you permission might be a
> reasonable explanation, but I doubt any court would find it
> a valid license given the standards of proof involved here.

Which are you implying here?  Is it that 
1) Joe might be deceitful (I doubt it;) or that
2) you must verify that Joe is really Joe or
3) something else.