Alexander Terekhov wrote: > Hyman Rosen wrote: >> You can't make copies of GPLed code and convey those copies >> to others unless you do so under the terms of the GPL.
You're mistaken, Hyman. 17 USC 109.
17 USC 109 speaks about transferring legally obtained copies, not about making copies, so your repeatedly invoking the section in response to the above isn't meaningful.
http://www2.verizon.net/micro/actiontec/actiontec.asp http://web-sniffer.net/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdownload.verizon.net%2Fwebdownload%2Ffirmware%2Fupgrades%2Factiontec%2520gateway%2F4.0.16.1.56.0.10.7-MI424WR.rmt&submit=Submit&http=1.1&gzip=yes&type=GET&uak=0
It is impossible to know, without having done detailed discovery, what the Verizon web server is doing in response to the "actiontec gateway" URL. Probing it from the outside is meaningless because a web server internally can take wildly different actions based on URL patterns. The requester cannot know what these were. Whether the actions taken by the Verizon server in this case constitute a GPL violation can be determined only by investigation within Verizon. Since the copyright holders appeared to be satisfied by Actiontec making the sources available, it seems unlikely that we'll find out. Naturally, as an opponent of the GPL, you would prefer that Verizon be committing a GPL violation with impunity, but your wishes are irrelevant to reality. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
