Re: [libreplanet-discuss] suggestion/help. GPL enforcement.

2016-06-06 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
Indeed... There are no limitations on how much one can charge for the binaries. Thank you very much Joshua Gay for bringing that possibility up (the one about not having limits for the price of source code redistribution if no object code was redistributed at first). signature.asc Description:

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] suggestion/help. GPL enforcement.

2016-06-06 Thread Pen-Yuan Hsing
On 2016-06-06 20:42, John Sullivan wrote: al3xu5 / dotcommon writes: If copyright laws didn't exist, then we would not need GPL! GPL exists just to "circumvent" copyright... Regards Unfortunately that's not the case. It's true that the GPL uses the power of

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] suggestion/help. GPL enforcement.

2016-06-06 Thread Joshua Gay
On 06/06/2016 02:46 PM, Daniel Pocock wrote: > That same principle goes on to read: "Occasionally, violations are > intentional or the result of severe negligence, and there is no duty to > be empathetic in those cases. Even then, a lawsuit is a last resort; > mutually agreed terms that fix (or

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] suggestion/help. GPL enforcement.

2016-06-06 Thread John Sullivan
al3xu5 / dotcommon writes: > If copyright laws didn't exist, then we would not need GPL! > GPL exists just to "circumvent" copyright... > Regards Unfortunately that's not the case. It's true that the GPL uses the power of copyright against copyright, but it also uses

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] suggestion/help. GPL enforcement.

2016-06-06 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 06/06/16 17:14, Joshua Gay wrote: > On 06/05/2016 11:39 AM, Adonay Felipe Nogueira wrote: >> Free software activists shouldn't sue people right from the start, they >> should instead enforce it through collaboration, first by private >> communication with the violator, then after series of

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] suggestion/help. GPL enforcement.

2016-06-06 Thread Joshua Gay
On 06/05/2016 11:39 AM, Adonay Felipe Nogueira wrote: > Free software activists shouldn't sue people right from the start, they > should instead enforce it through collaboration, first by private > communication with the violator, then after series of negligencies done > by the violators, the

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] suggestion/help. GPL enforcement.

2016-06-06 Thread Joshua Gay
On 06/05/2016 04:22 PM, Adonay Felipe Nogueira wrote: > At least under section 6 of the GNU GPL, there are limits on how > much one can charge for the work. > > If the object is offered in physical medium, the profit margin can > only be imposed upon that, not in the costs of conveying the >

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] suggestion/help. GPL enforcement.

2016-06-06 Thread Aaron Wolf
On 06/05/2016 11:35 PM, Daniel Pocock wrote: > > > On 05/06/16 20:46, Aaron Wolf wrote: >> On 06/05/2016 11:23 AM, Daniel Pocock wrote: >>> >>> If copyright law didn't exist, then developers would not be able to use >>> the GPL to place copyleft conditions on derivative works >>> >> >> (preface:

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] suggestion/help. GPL enforcement.

2016-06-06 Thread Giuseppe Molica
Daniel Pocock writes: > From a practical perspective, thought, I suspect that an outcome > combining all the things in that sentence is extremely unlikely any time > soon and so using copyright law to serve a useful purpose is the way to > go for many people > > I agree.

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] suggestion/help. GPL enforcement.

2016-06-06 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 05/06/16 20:46, Aaron Wolf wrote: > On 06/05/2016 11:23 AM, Daniel Pocock wrote: >> >> If copyright law didn't exist, then developers would not be able to use >> the GPL to place copyleft conditions on derivative works >> > > (preface: I acknowledge this wording as slightly snarky) > >