Considering Aaron's legacy of "full-time, uncompromising, reckless and delightful shit-disturb[ing]" as so eloquently put by Cory Doctorow, he probably wouldn't have wanted us to deal with the trivialities of copyright law at the expense of a good cause.

Aaron knew about copyright's implications - hell right around the time of RSS, he helped launch Creative Commons. And he didn't put a license on his site. So maybe by not stating a license he was making a statement about copyright. But now we'll never be able to know for sure.

> he probably wouldn't have wanted us to deal with the trivialities of copyright law at the expense of a good cause.

Unfortunately, the same might be said of Martin Luther King and his "I Have a Dream" speech, which still can't be reprinted or rebroadcast in full until 2038, thanks to the greed of his estate.

It's a shame that legal technicalities can end up being so important, but the fact is that it's true.