David Kastrup wrote: > > Alexander Terekhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > John Hasler wrote: > >> > >> Tim Smith wrote: > >> > The copies were pretty clearly made lawfully under GPL. I am clearly the > >> > owner of the copies. So, why can't I take advantage of first sale and > >> > sell them, without the need of copyright permission? > >> > >> Because you agreed not to sell them without source when you accepted the > >> GPL which you did when you made the copies. > > > > Ahhh. But don't you know that the GPL is not a contract (agreement) in > > the GNU Republic, uncle Hasler? :-) > > You can claim either agreement or non-agreement with the conditions. > Your choice. In the latter case, you had no permission to copy in the > first place.
You confuse conditions precedent with covenants. In the former case, failure to fullfill condition precedent means that I had no permission to copy in the first place. But restrictions on distribution of a copy that I make (under authorization) just can't be conditions precedent because a copy must be made first. Got it now? 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
