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- From: arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee)
- Subject: Re: Fund raising at the FSF
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.082504.15062@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
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- Organization: Johns Hopkins University CS Dept.
- References: <1isogrINN3k3@early-bird.think.com> <1993Jan11.215534.27348@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> <1itqmcINNsm7@early-bird.think.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 08:25:04 GMT
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- In article <1itqmcINNsm7@early-bird.think.com> barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:
- >The GPL requires you to distribute your source code. But if you fail to
- >distribute your source code, it doesn't give someone the right to steal it.
- >Violating the GPL only gives the party you received the GPLed code from the
- >right to enjoin you from distribution (since that is the only right that
- >was dependent on obeying the rules of the GPL).
-
- Then explain this quote (which is from the GPL, but which I had to cut and
- paste out of my own articles, lacking other copies but having quoted it before)
-
- >> Therefore, by
- >> modifying or distributing the Program (or any work based on the
- >> Program), you indicate your acceptance of this License to do so.
-
- That doesn't sound like it's saying "if you violate the GPL by distributing
- without source, you can be prevented from distribution". It sounds more like
- "if you distribute without source, you just gave implicit consent for someone
- to copy your stuff".
- --
- "On the first day after Christmas my truelove served to me... Leftover Turkey!
- On the second day after Christmas my truelove served to me... Turkey Casserole
- that she made from Leftover Turkey.
- [days 3-4 deleted] ... Flaming Turkey Wings! ...
- -- Pizza Hut commercial (and M*tlu/A*gic bait)
-
- Ken Arromdee (arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu, arromdee@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu)
-