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: Robert Dewar Subject: Re: GPL and "free" software Date: 1999/04/26 Message-ID: <7g2kp3$55d$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 471175972 References: <7fibd5$jc7$1@news2.tor.accglobal.net> <7fudch$hsv$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <3723c38b@eeyore.callnetuk.com> <7g2gqk$ffk$1@52-a-usw.rb1.blv.nwnexus.net> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x2.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Mon Apr 26 21:11:03 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,gnu.misc.discuss X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1999-04-26T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <7g2gqk$ffk$1@52-a-usw.rb1.blv.nwnexus.net>, tzs@halcyon.com (Tim Smith) wrote: > B broke the license by not telling C that the software > was GPL'ed. Well you can't exactly "break" a license. What B did was to make an unauthorized copy for C, since the distribution to C was not covered by the license. Thus this is a copyright violation (there is really no such thing as a license violation -- the GPL allows you to make certain copies -- any copy outside these allowances is simply a copyright violation). -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own