Re: GPL and NDAs

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From: Jeffrey B. Siegal
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 00:00

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Stefaan A Eeckels wrote:
> I suppose one could rent a machine with pre-installed GPL'ed
> software without the lessor needing to provide the source
> code.

Why go to the trouble of renting a machine?  There is no essential difference
between renting a machine with software on it, and renting just the software.

As I said, if transfer of ownership is essential, then GPL is dead, because
software is "distributed" all the time without transfer of ownership, even of
a copy.

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