Re: GPL and NDAs

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From: Jeffrey B. Siegal
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 00:00

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Onnie Lynn Winebarger wrote:
> It would help if you specified
> exactly what you mean by "own the software" (i.e. whether you mean one of
> the above two, or some sort of "configuration of bits on the media" or
> what).

It really doesn't matter.  The whole distraction of talking about ownership
was based on the false idea that distribution is somehow related to transfer
of ownership.  It isn't.  Distribution can occur without transfer of
ownership, for example in a lending or rental transaction.  And transfer of
ownership can occur which is probably not distribution, such as a
sale-leaseback.  

Ownership is irrelevant to GPL and discussing it here is pointless.

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