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- From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
- Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
- Subject: Re: Fund raising at the FSF
- Date: 13 Jan 1993 04:34:55 GMT
- Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
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- References: <1993Jan12.082504.15062@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> <1ivb9nINN4f2@early-bird.think.com> <1993Jan12.212313.5205@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan12.212313.5205@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee) writes:
- >In other words, by distributing the program, you implicitly agree to distribute
- >source code.
-
- Right. That's not the same thing as agreeing to let someone take source
- code. If I agree to give you $10, I have not implicitly agreed to let you
- pick my pocket to take the $10.
-
- If I fail to do what I agreed to do, I have violated the agreement, and the
- contract is voided.
-
- >>It *doesn't* say that violating the agreement
- >>gives third parties the right to take source code that you haven't
- >>distributed.
- >
- >Well, it doesn't say that in section 4.
-
- It doesn't say it *anywhere*. Section 4 is the section that describes the
- consequences of violating the license agreement. Please find a sentence in
- the GPL that says anything about *taking* source code, as opposed to
- *distributing* source code.
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- Barry Margolin
- System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.
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