> * Mark Rafn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030501 21:57]: > > Under droit d'auteur, you're not allowed to grant unqualified permission > > to the reciever of a work to make modifications or to distribute the work. > > You cannot fulfil the GPL requirements, so you cannot distribute the work.
On Fri, 2 May 2003, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > If author's rights would be introduced in the USA, this might be the > case. I do not know about denmark, but here in Germany I am allowed to > give any permissions I want. (People might not be able to do so, as > law or other people forbid them to exercise it, but this does not > limit me, as long as I do not formulate a incitement in the form of > a permission) > > Just ask yourself: Are you allowed to grant a permission to someone > to use a piece of GPL'd software to drive a plane in an arbitrary > tower? If not, are you still allowed to distribute software under > the GPL? I understand this point, but it's a pretty important difference. If I grant permission to use my GPL software to drive a plane into a tower, it is not I, but the tower inhabitants, who would attempt to prevent such use. And they would not use copyright law to do so, I expect. Still, enough people far more knowledgeable than I have asserted that droit d'auteur does not prevent distribution of a derived work of a GPL'ed work, so I'll stop looking for edge cases. I do maintain that a license which attempts to impose such restrictions explicitly is non-free. -- Mark Rafn [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://www.dagon.net/>