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- From: friedman@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Noah Friedman)
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- Subject: Re: Fund raising at the FSF
- Date: 9 Jan 93 11:48:39
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- In-reply-to: barmar@think.com's message of 9 Jan 1993 14:01:09 GMT
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- In article <1imlr5INN2tu@early-bird.think.com> barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:
- >The actual force of the GPL as a true "license" has never actually been
- >tested. I'm not a lawyer, but it looks very much like "shrink-wrap"
- >licenses, which many people believe are not really enforceable.
-
- Paragraph 5 of the GPL (version 2) says:
-
- 5. You are not required to accept this License, since you have not
- signed it. However, nothing else grants you permission to modify or
- distribute the Program or its derivative works. These actions are
- prohibited by law if you do not accept this License. Therefore, by
- modifying or distributing the Program (or any work based on the
- Program), you indicate your acceptance of this License to do so, and
- all its terms and conditions for copying, distributing or modifying
- the Program or works based on it.
-
- This hasn't been tested yet in court, however.
-
-
- >The GPL is probably better viewed as a description of the copyright terms;
-
- That seems like the only sensible definition to me, given the above.
- Whether that is the official FSF interpretation or not I don't know.
-