On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 11:21:24AM +0200, Fredrik Jagenheim (humming@...) wrote:
> OTOH, to get back to the real point; If you are giving away your
> copyrighted works for free, for the intent purpose of all users to
> freely use your program, without shipping a license, or even a note,
> on how this program may be distributed, I think you've made it pretty
> clear that, unless you tell the offending parties otherwise, you have
> no problems with it being redistributed.

Explicit permission from the copyright owner is required to legally
redistribute:

http://kb.indiana.edu/data/ahmf.html
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/webcopyr.html

If the copyright owner has no problems with redistribution, they would
most likely include a simple license which permits redistribution so
that people wouldn't have to violate the law to do just that.

For instance:
http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/eula.htm

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