Re: it's possible to steal free software

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From: Richard
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 00:00

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Richard Tobin wrote:

> In article <38923724.8D2DD5@home.com>, Richard  <2prometheus@home.com> wrote:
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> >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.

Ahhh. But if this were correct then my argument would hold.

>  It's
> meaningless to say that you have put the GPL on your code if you are
> not distributing it.

It depends on whether copyright law forces derivatives to not be published
(until the original author gives you a license to allow you to do so) or forces
the making of derivatives to be subject to the original license (thus putting
the derivatives of GPLed work immediately under the GPL). Again, because
it's not possible to license the /use/ of code, the latter is not correct.

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