Ken Arromdee wrote: > On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Matthew Garrett wrote: >> > An elementary point of Free Software is to protect the rights of the >> > users, not excluding "bad" ones. (Or will GPL3 have a section >> > termination the licence if you breach any FSF copyright?) >> >> forfeits the right to distribute the code at all", which implies that >> the GPL doesn't protect the rights of people who have violated it in the >> past. > > I know that something like this is in the GPL, but I wonder how he > reconciles it with this: > > # Each time you redistribute the Program (or any work based on the > # Program), the recipient automatically receives a license from the > # original licensor to copy, distribute or modify the Program subject to > # these terms and conditions. > > That suggests that although violating the GPL causes the license on the > copy you have to be revoked, when someone distributes another copy to you, > you gain another license for the new copy.
Perhaps he assumes that, if you were caught violating the license, nobody will distribute another copy to you? ;-) -- This space intentionally left blank.