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From: | Hyman Rosen |
Subject: | Re: Psystar's legal reply brief in response to Apple |
Date: | Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:57:45 -0000 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100713 Thunderbird/3.1.1 |
On 8/5/2010 3:31 PM, ZnU wrote:
See section 9. "However, nothing other than this License grants you permission to propagate or modify any covered work. These actions infringe copyright if you do not accept this License. Therefore, by modifying or propagating a covered work, you indicate your acceptance of this License to do so." GPL3 _does_ claim you need to accept the license to modify the work even without distribution, or else you're infringing on copyright. This does not actually appear to be the case.
No. See section 0. <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> To “modify” a work means to copy from or adapt all or part of the work in a fashion requiring copyright permission, other than the making of an exact copy. The resulting work is called a “modified version” of the earlier work or a work “based on” the earlier work. As a copyright license, the GPL could not possibly demand that it be accepted in order to do something for which no permission is required, and here it explicitly disclaims any such demands.
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