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Re: GPL traitor !
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Peter Köhlmann |
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Re: GPL traitor ! |
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Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:36:58 +0200 |
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Rjack wrote:
> Hyman Rosen wrote:
>> Rjack wrote:
>>> The inserted GPL library code is verbatim and unmodified.
>>
>> Untrue - static linking makes changes to the inserted library
>> code as addresses are resolved. But that's probably not relevant.
>>
>>> The whole compilation is in no way "based" on unmodified GPL'd
>> > library code.
>>
>> False. The GPL itself defines what it means by "based", and that
>> definition states that it describes a work other than a verbatim
>> copy whose production requires copyright permission.
>
> Uh... you can't define your own copyright law and expect a federal
> court to enforce your new definition. Read 17 USC sec. 301.
>
You naturally can. If the licence gives rights in *addition* to copyright,
which is the case with GPL, you certainly can. And it is enforceable.
You just can not create a licence which takes away rights granted by pure
copyright and expect that to be enforceable
But then, you are Rjack. Reason has never come anywhere near you
--
Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
-- Henry Spencer
- Re: GPL traitor !, (continued)
- Re: GPL traitor !, Hyman Rosen, 2009/06/17
- Re: GPL traitor !, Rjack, 2009/06/17
- Re: GPL traitor !, Hyman Rosen, 2009/06/17
- Re: GPL traitor !, Alexander Terekhov, 2009/06/18
- Re: GPL traitor !, Hyman Rosen, 2009/06/18
- Re: GPL traitor !, Rjack, 2009/06/16
- Re: GPL traitor !, Hyman Rosen, 2009/06/17
- Re: GPL traitor !, Rjack, 2009/06/17
- Re: GPL traitor !, Hyman Rosen, 2009/06/17
- Re: GPL traitor !, Rjack, 2009/06/17
- Re: GPL traitor !,
Peter Köhlmann <=
- Re: GPL traitor !, Hyman Rosen, 2009/06/17
- Re: GPL traitor !, Rjack, 2009/06/17
- Re: GPL traitor !, Hyman Rosen, 2009/06/17
- Re: GPL traitor !, Rjack, 2009/06/18
- Re: GPL traitor !, Hyman Rosen, 2009/06/18
- Re: GPL traitor !, Rjack, 2009/06/18
- Re: GPL traitor !, Hyman Rosen, 2009/06/18
- Re: GPL traitor !, Rjack, 2009/06/18
- Re: GPL traitor !, Hyman Rosen, 2009/06/18
- Re: GPL traitor !, Alexander Terekhov, 2009/06/18