From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,43ae7f61992b3213 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,faf964ea4531e6af X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Joshua E. Rodd" Subject: Re: GPL and "free" software Date: 1999/05/07 Message-ID: <37336A2E.774E0A80@iiinet.dhs.org>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 475334995 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <7fibd5$jc7$1@news2.tor.accglobal.net> <1rlV2.97$jw4.11389@burlma1-snr2> <7g5cb2$bjn$1@netnews.upenn.edu> <37264DE6.7AA43E60@noah.dhs.org> <7g5qgg$n7t@www.inetnow.net> <372753FF.11F381CF@noah.dhs.org> <7g7ul9$tib$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <3727B37D.A4A5192E@noah.dhs.org> <7g9rh5$h5a$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7gsrh4$g6c$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@neo.rr.com X-Trace: dustdevil.neo.rr.com 926116398 24.93.213.213 (Fri, 07 May 1999 18:33:18 EDT) Organization: Road Runner High Speed Online -- Northeast Ohio MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 18:33:18 EDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,gnu.misc.discuss Date: 1999-05-07T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Robert Dewar wrote: > No, the company employees in this situation are part of the single > entity. This is the same principle that allows a company to sign an > NDA that is binding on all its employees without them having to sign > specifically. Giving a copy of GPL'ed software to one of your > employees is not distribution within the meaning of the GPL. Yes, it is. You couldn't give an employee a copy of Winodws 95 to install on their PC unless you had paid for a licence because that would infringe the copyright. Likewise, you may only redistribute GPL'd works if you do not place any restrictions upon that the recipient of the works can do with those works. If you restrict your employee from posting copies of the code you gave him or her to some random FTP site, you're violating the licence, and have no right to redistribute the GPL'd works with your changes to your employee at all.