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From: Barry Margolin <barmar@bbnplanet.com>
Subject: Re: GPL and "free" software
Date: 1999/04/27
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In article <7g4jme$5sq$3@netnews.upenn.edu>,
Paul Hughett <hughett@chaplin.med.upenn.edu> wrote:
>Paragraph 7 of the GPL (version 2) grants C the right to
>use/copy/modify/etc the software, even if B made and distributed the
>copy in violation of the GPL.  C arguably has the same rights
>with respect to B's modifications of the code, but I would want to do
>some more study and thinking before I would be really sure of it.

I don't see that in paragraph 7.  It describes the situation where other
considerations (such as patent infringement) contradict the GPL, and says
that the consequence of this is that you can't distribute the program at
all.

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