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Re: More FSF hypocrisy
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Alan Mackenzie |
Subject: |
Re: More FSF hypocrisy |
Date: |
Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:58:01 +0000 (UTC) |
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In gnu.misc.discuss Rjack <user@example.net> wrote:
> Copyright law as written by Congress is designed to establish the
> right to exclude. *ONLY* Congress can create those "in rem" rights
> to exclude. See 17 USC section 301(a).
> Copyright licenses are designed to waive particular rights to
> exclude so that licensees may use those personam rights granted by
> the copyright owner in contractual privity.
That's a very strange statement. The GPL is not so designed; it is
designed to "waive particular rights" over any who conform to its
requirements, regardless of the contractual privy. It is thus not a
contractual license, since there are no contractual negotiations or
handshakes involved.
By your statement, are you trying to show that the GPL isn't really a
copyright license, or are you making a historical assertion, that this
was the motivation of the original license designers?
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
- Re: More FSF hypocrisy, (continued)
- Re: More FSF hypocrisy, chrisv, 2009/03/23
- Re: More FSF hypocrisy, Rjack, 2009/03/23
- Re: More FSF hypocrisy, Hyman Rosen, 2009/03/23
- Re: More FSF hypocrisy, Alexander Terekhov, 2009/03/23
- Re: More FSF hypocrisy, Hyman Rosen, 2009/03/23
- Re: More FSF hypocrisy, Alexander Terekhov, 2009/03/23
- Re: More FSF hypocrisy, Hyman Rosen, 2009/03/23
- Re: More FSF hypocrisy, Alexander Terekhov, 2009/03/23
- Re: More FSF hypocrisy, Hyman Rosen, 2009/03/23
- Re: More FSF hypocrisy, Rjack, 2009/03/23
- Re: More FSF hypocrisy,
Alan Mackenzie <=
- Re: More FSF hypocrisy, Rjack, 2009/03/24
- Re: More FSF hypocrisy, Alan Mackenzie, 2009/03/24
- Re: More FSF hypocrisy, Rjack, 2009/03/24
- Re: More FSF hypocrisy, Alan Mackenzie, 2009/03/25
- Re: More FSF hypocrisy, Rjack, 2009/03/25
- Re: More FSF hypocrisy, Alan Mackenzie, 2009/03/25
- Re: More FSF hypocrisy, Alexander Terekhov, 2009/03/25
- Re: More FSF hypocrisy, Rahul Dhesi, 2009/03/25
- Re: More FSF hypocrisy, Alexander Terekhov, 2009/03/25
- Re: More FSF hypocrisy, Alan Mackenzie, 2009/03/25