> From: Alexander Eichler [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> in US, it needs copyright law to act like it does. Conclusion is, that GPL
> is only a possibility to give the right to use to somebody else. Copyright
> beneath this still exists. So GPL is a license agreement. As any other
[DJW:]
GPL is founded on copyright. In fact, I've heard that
the FSF will insist that copyright ownership is made
very clear before accepting something under the Gnu
banner.
> In US it is said that there is no way to prevent people of distributing
> derivative works. There is a discussion whether GPL is an agreement, a
>
[DJW:] This is a design aim of the GPL, not a side
effect.
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