on Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 03:09:27PM +0100, Rob Myers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > on 24/9/01 2:15 pm, John Cowan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> A disgruntled programmer can stop voluntarily not distributing [GPLed] > code. Not legally, and at pain of violating copyright of his/her company. The GPL is an affirmative license, not a presumptive one. It states that one *may* distribute software under the terms of the license, not that one *must* distribute. Unilateral actions of an employee in distributing derived works in which his/her employer is copyright holder would presumably trigger, among other things, possible copyright violation actions against the employee. IANAL, TINLA. I'm not a member or spokesman for OSI. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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