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Re: Are Microsofts patent lawyers really this dumb?
From: |
Alexander Terekhov |
Subject: |
Re: Are Microsofts patent lawyers really this dumb? |
Date: |
Sat, 14 Jul 2007 16:12:27 +0200 |
"Alfred M. Szmidt" wrote:
>
> "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > Not really. You can use it to license commercial software, but
> > since the demand is that it is "to be licensed as a whole at no
> > charge", while you can charge for a copy of the _software_, the
> > license itself is not a commercial item.
> >
> > Sure it is, you can charge several millions for a copy of the license.
> > All that is required is that you do not modify it.
>
> You can't charge anything for the license accompanying sublicensed
> GPLed software, obviously. That's what the "no charge" is about.
Sublicensed GPLed software? Dak, dak, dak,
"Sublicensing is not allowed"
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
> Please read again.
>
> Sure I can, I am talking about the actual _LICENSE_. The FSF even
> sells nicely printed copies of it, did you know that?
>
> | Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
> | of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
>
> What I cannot do is charge for receiving a license to do things, which
> is quite different. You like to complain about my spelling, now I'd
> like to take the oppertunity to complain about your complete and utter
> inability to comprehend basic English.
LOL.
regards,
alexander.
--
"Mathematics is primarily a language for ensuring reliable results
in human social activity. "
-- Columbia Professor Eben Anarcho-Dot Communist Moglen
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