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Article #23116Re: it's possible to steal free software
From: Richard Tobin
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 00:00
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 00:00
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In article <38923724.8D2DD5@home.com>, Richard <2prometheus@home.com> wrote: >> For example, if the company writes software and places the GPL on their >> code, they get to decide whether or not to distribute it, and on what basis. > >They've /already/ decided; they did so the moment they slapped the GPL on it. You don't "place a licence on some code" except as a convenient shorthand, you give (or sell) people a licence to use it. It's meaningless to say that you have put the GPL on your code if you are not distributing it. -- Richard -- Spam filter: to mail me from a .com/.net site, put my surname in the headers. "The Internet is really just a series of bottlenecks joined by high speed networks." - Sam Wilson
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,92d97b78a13510de X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-Thread: 102b75,6e7c0786c7ba904e X-Google-Attributes: gid102b75,public From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Subject: Re: it's possible to steal free software Date: 2000/01/30 Message-ID: <86vvdk$7dl$1@pc-news.cogsci.ed.ac.uk> X-Deja-AN: 579330777 References: <y4902dyklq.fsf@mailhost.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> <38913E17.F9A28225@home.com> <slrn893a9v.59.isaac@latveria.castledoom.org> <38923724.8D2DD5@home.com> X-Complaints-To: usenet@cogsci.ed.ac.uk X-Trace: pc-news.cogsci.ed.ac.uk 949190900 7605 129.215.110.29 (30 Jan 2000 00:08:20 GMT) Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh NNTP-Posting-Date: 30 Jan 2000 00:08:20 GMT Newsgroups: comp.arch,gnu.misc.discuss