🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1itqmcINNsm7@early-bird.think.com> barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:
>The GPL requires you to distribute your source code.  But if you fail to
>distribute your source code, it doesn't give someone the right to steal it.
>Violating the GPL only gives the party you received the GPLed code from the
>right to enjoin you from distribution (since that is the only right that
>was dependent on obeying the rules of the GPL).

Then explain this quote (which is from the GPL, but which I had to cut and
paste out of my own articles, lacking other copies but having quoted it before)

>>    Therefore, by
>>    modifying or distributing the Program (or any work based on the
>>    Program), you indicate your acceptance of this License to do so.

That doesn't sound like it's saying "if you violate the GPL by distributing
without source, you can be prevented from distribution".  It sounds more like
"if you distribute without source, you just gave implicit consent for someone
to copy your stuff".
--
"On the first day after Christmas my truelove served to me...  Leftover Turkey!
On the second day after Christmas my truelove served to me...  Turkey Casserole
    that she made from Leftover Turkey.
[days 3-4 deleted] ...  Flaming Turkey Wings! ...
   -- Pizza Hut commercial (and M*tlu/A*gic bait)

Ken Arromdee (arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu, arromdee@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu)