: How To Break The GPL - Copyright versus Contract
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From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 6:45 PM
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Cc: Open-Source License Discussion
Subject: RE: How To Break The GPL - Copyright versus Contract
"Dennis E. Hamilton" wrote:
However, my sense of the GPL is that the Free Software Foundation is relying
only on Copyright for the GPL, and that there is nothing but a conditional
(non-exclusive and royalty free) license of copyright conveyed in the GPL
(apart from the "no warranty"
"Rod Dixon, J.D., LL.M." wrote:
If so, the FSF position would be that they own the
copyright interest and THEY are assigning YOU a non-excusive copyright
interest to make derivative works under the terms and conditions of the GPL.
In the case of works published by the FSF, certainly. In the
On Thu, 09 Mar 2000, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
I guess here it is a matter of asking the FSF whether they see themselves as
having accomplished anything else, since when we employ the GPL we appear to
be assigning copyright to the FSF.
Although members of GNU, and a few other people, assign
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