Developer discussion for Creative Commons technology and tools

["Luis Villa" <luis AT tieguy.org>]

On 8/20/06, Luis Villa <luis AT tieguy.org> wrote:
> On 8/20/06, Luke Hoersten <luke.hoersten AT gmail.com> wrote:
> > GPL verification is done in a much more casual way than the
> > CC licenses and some people don't even notice they do it, but, a need
> > for verification still exists.
>
> For what it is worth, even the uber-paranoid lawyers at Sun and Novell
> did not require us to verify the source of GPL'd code we used in
> company products, as long as the GPL was correctly included in the
> source we were using. The only time we ever had to verify that I can
> recall were when the included copyright information was in some way
> non-standard or unclear. Verification certainly isn't a bad option to
> provide, and if a standard API could make verification automatic, that
> would certainly be a good thing, but the GPL community has done fine
> without any verification,

s/without any/without substantial/

> so it seems to me that saying there is a
> 'need' is a bit strong.
>
> Luis