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Article #23281Re: GPL and NDAs
From: Barry Margolin
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 00:00
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 00:00
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In article <87d7r0jg4r.fsf@flophouse.localnet>, Bill Gribble <grib@cs.utexas.edu> wrote: >Barry Margolin <barmar@bbnplanet.com> writes: >> If distributing software internally within an organization were held to be >> distribution w/r/t the GPL, the "other pertinent obligation" would be your >> agreement to pay the employee only if they don't redistribute the Program. >> The above clause would prohibit you from distributing the Program in the >> first place. > >Have y'all checked Slashdot lately? Stallman has spoken up on this >very issue. Obviously his opinion isn't law, but it should >influence this discussion. I know that RMS has said that internal copying isn't distribution. That's what I said "If": I was describing a hypothetical, such as would happen if courts determined that he was wrong about intra-organizational copying not being distribution. -- Barry Margolin, barmar@bbnplanet.com GTE Internetworking, Powered by BBN, Burlington, MA *** DON'T SEND TECHNICAL QUESTIONS DIRECTLY TO ME, post them to newsgroups. Please DON'T copy followups to me -- I'll assume it wasn't posted to the group.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102b75,6e7c0786c7ba904e X-Google-Attributes: gid102b75,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,92d97b78a13510de X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public From: Barry Margolin <barmar@bbnplanet.com> Subject: Re: GPL and NDAs Date: 2000/01/18 Message-ID: <mT2h4.23$XS6.411@burlma1-snr2> X-Deja-AN: 574342173 Distribution: world References: <y4902dyklq.fsf@mailhost.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> <pw-1701001835590001@166.84.250.180> <c8Og4.77$5A4.687@burlma1-snr2> <87d7r0jg4r.fsf@flophouse.localnet> X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Complaints-To: abuse@gtei.net X-Trace: /Kp2lrXwmMs1iuEQfFvAnnjhnDYZYgFzg++aWTIx29Hr33IKY1ntZ3PsTbMr6UR0mZYgMP9Uzv3D!4kiVY74uZgCUWxXCIb8D+ALcWtMRGWhf7/xPpML//9vVImykKxYeyTbzOA== Organization: GTE Internetworking, Cambridge, MA X-Copies-To: never NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 19:09:06 GMT Newsgroups: comp.arch,gnu.misc.discuss Originator: barmar@bbnplanet.com (Barry Margolin)