Brian Thomas Sniffen writes: > Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 07:38:14PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > >> The form of both is "Since <person> performs <action>, <person> shall > >> be punished by terminating their license". The claim was that this is > >> somehow acceptable. > > > > There are cases where this is acceptable. > > > > For example, where <action> involves distributing a GPL licensed program > > without including the copyright notices. > > I disagree. I think the phrasing Andrew should have used is "Since > <person> performs <action reserved to licensor without this license>..."
This is not legally accurate. US copyright law, for example, reserves for the original author the right to distribute the work and to create derived works. It does not reserve to him the right to distribute derived works; the GPL limits that by only granting the first two rights if you agree to its terms. Michael Poole