On 22/11/2010 8:06 PM, Dan Eicher wrote: > So, yeah, according to the FSF a stolen version is ok to distribute... > not that I agree with their reasoning on this though.
This is also the conclusion of the legal representation I've been able to talk to about it (in regards to licensing software which had trade secret code mixed in with GPL code). They too thought it was a stupid result, but it is a valid reading of the license terms (and good lawyers are good at finding the worst possible, yet still valid interpretations of legal clauses). In my experience, this resulted in weird situations where vital parts of company infrastructure were "leased" from a third-party mixing GPL code in with code containing (dubiously valued) "trade secrets". As the code itself never left the corporate property of the developers, it was classified as not being "distributed". This, however, was in a server / network environment. Blender, being a client utility, does not lend itself to such "creative" solutions. -- Regards, Benjamin Tolputt Analyst Programmer _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
