Re: GPL and NDAs

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From: Isaac
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 00:00

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On Sat, 15 Jan 2000 23:31:39 -0800, Jeffrey B. Siegal <jbs@quiotix.com> wrote:
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>GPL does not explicitly give you the right to even copy the executable
>separately from this "copy and distribute" clause.  Thus, technically if you

If you copy the executable to two of your own computers then you need to
give yourself the source code.   Is that what you are saying?   Do you 
believe the clause you cite is triggered if you distribute to yourself?  I
don't.

Perhaps you disagree that a company placing a binary on its own computers
is distributing to itself rather than to its employees.  I think that
is a point on which reasonable people can disagree.  But people who
accept my interpretation will have no problems finding that the GPL
allows them to distribute binaries internally without giving their
employees source code.

Isaac

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From: isaac@latveria.castledoom.org (Isaac)
Subject: Re: GPL and NDAs
Date: 2000/01/16
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