John Hasler wrote: > > rjack wrote: > > Do you *really* believe that the GPL can bind all those "downstream" > > third-party beneficiaries? > > Hyman writes: > > Of course. > > It doesn't bind them. It grants permission to them.
Uncle Hasler, uncle Hasler. Suppose that a third party lawfully receives the Program from a second party without agreeing to any "permission" and does something that is NOT prohibited by the copyright statute (such as not providing the source code for the "modified" Program to network users of the Program). What is your "permission" good for? Simply put, third parties have no need for your "permission". regards, alexander. -- http://gng.z505.com/index.htm (GNG is a derecursive recursive derecursion which pwns GNU since it can be infinitely looped as GNGNGNGNG...NGNGNG... and can be said backwards too, whereas GNU cannot.) _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
