Re: GPL and NDAs

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From: Barry Margolin
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 00:00

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In article <3880FBD0.428ECE00@quiotix.com>,
Jeffrey B. Siegal <jbs@quiotix.com> wrote:
>Colin Walters wrote:
>> The inside/outside distinction is merely a guideline to follow for
>> when one is going against the GPL.  Look at it this way: nowhere in
>> the GPL is "distribution" defined.
>
>Distribution is defined under copyright law as giving someone a copy.  

But that "someone" can be a corporation -- for many (most) facets of the
law, a corporation is treated equivalently to a person.  As far as the GPL
authors are concerned, copies within an organization are considered to be
the organization making copies for itself, equivalent to an individual
modifying their own copy.

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