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, MSGID_RANDY 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: dewarr@my-dejanews.com Subject: Re: GPL and "free" software Date: 1999/05/08 Message-ID: <7h1cq3$csm$1@nnrp1.deja.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 475502265 References: <7fibd5$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> <37336A2E.774E0A80@iiinet.dhs.org> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x4.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.10 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Sat May 08 13:05:07 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,gnu.misc.discuss X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.5 [en] (WinNT; U) Date: 1999-05-08T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <37336A2E.774E0A80@iiinet.dhs.org>, "Joshua E. Rodd" wrote: > > 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. Nope, this is wrong! It has been much discussed before, so consult the archives for details. -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own