MJ Ray writes: > However, do we agree that a free copyright licence may not terminate > when someone asserts a copyright claim?
Suppose Alice publishes Asoft under the GPL. Bob files a lawsuit claiming that Asoft infringes his copyright on his proprietary program Bsoft. Does that breach section 4 of the GPL, terminating his license to modify, copy, and so forth, the remainder of Asoft? I think it does, although I am open to arguments as to why Bob would retain a license to Asoft. Some have suggsted that Bob gets a new license every time he gets a copy of Asoft from someone else. I disagree with that because that interpretation opens a significant loophole in the GPL's protection and because getting a new license would not remedy previous instances of copyright infringement. Michael Poole