On 10/08/13 11:42, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Sat, 10 Aug 2013 09:18:30 +0100, Neil wrote in message > <[email protected]>: > >> >> On 10 Aug 2013, at 02:31, Jerome Leclanche <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> What are the implications of GPL-licensed code being used in a purely >>> cosmetic way in commercial products (such as hollywoodish hacking scenes)? >> >> None at all, that I can think of — the GPL does not impose any conditions on >> merely running a program, and, in my view, the spirit of the GPL would >> extend this to running it and filming it >> being run. There is not act of distribution or conveyance here. > > ..compare the right hand side third of http://i.imgur.com/gw9a0Cg.jpg with > http://www.peculiarities.com/code/mac.html before you jump to such > conclusions, showing code snippets to people in a > public movie theater, _is_ indeed "an act of publishing it." ;o)
By that logic it would mean that if I were to catch a brief glimpse of your laptop screen - or projection presentation - as it displayed a fragment of GPLed source-code that it would be an act of publishing under §2b ?
