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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, March 20 2013 @ 12:29 PM EDT |
Consider a hypothetical fishing license granted by a DNR, the license allows for
catching any number of bass but limits the number of trout caught to two.
Suppose now an irreverent angler is stopped with 5 bass and three trout in his
creel. Would those five bass have been caught legally under the license because
the angler was complying with that particular part of the license? Or would the
entire license have been revoked because the angler failed to comply with its
terms -- and thus ANY fish catching was done without a license?
Personally, I think it's the latter. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: cjk fossman on Wednesday, March 20 2013 @ 12:35 PM EDT |
Have you read the license?
Are you aware that the license has a provision requiring you
to provide source code?
Are you aware that the source code requirement has been held
up in court? Are you aware that violators, when confronted,
have folded like a facial tissue in a tsunami?
So it doesn't matter whether you call it a license, a
contract or a pork-pie hat, the GPL has teeth.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, March 20 2013 @ 01:18 PM EDT |
The copy is first made and then (afterwards) distributed. It's
either pirated
copy or lawfully made copy irrespective of eventual distribution
afterwards.
The copyright holder grants you the right to make a
copy only if you agree to follow the GPL. Otherwise you are granted no right to
copy and you are in violation of copyright law.
One of the terms of the GPL
is that if, after making the copy, you distribute it then you will do certain
things.
So what you do at the time of distribution does in fact affect
whether your copying was legal or not. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: PJ on Wednesday, March 20 2013 @ 01:39 PM EDT |
This is your fantasy. But there are now too
many cases proving you wrong. So either
upgrade your brain or get out. Seriously.
This is too wrong to stay on Groklaw. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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