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From: <spblunt@ozemail.com.au>
Subject: Re: GPL and "free" software
Date: 1999/04/27
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Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com> wrote:
> In article <7g2epv$k11$1@netnews.upenn.edu>,
>   hughett@chaplin.med.upenn.edu (Paul Hughett) wrote:
>> I am assuming that B misrepresented the software as their
>> own and failed to inform C that C is free to use and/or
>> redistribute the software under the GPL; then I think C
>> has a pretty good case for fraud.

> But in fact C is NOT free to further distribute this
> software, since C does not hold a license. C has been
> granted a license neither by B nor by A, thus C cannot
> copy the software at all.

That was what I was sort of getting at, they could sue for the right
to modify and redistribute, but they probably couldn't sue for their 
money since B wasn't wrong in charging for the software.

Just reading the GPL again, it says

<quote>
  1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's
source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you
conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate
copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the
notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty;
and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License
along with the Program.

You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, and
you may at your option offer warranty protection in exchange for a fee.
</quote>

Note "give any other recipients of the program a copy of this Licence along
with the program".  Does that mean you need not tell them about the GPL 
until the money has changed hands?

cya