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Article #72587Question about GPL
From: Randy Burns
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1992 04:57
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1992 04:57
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Would it be consider kosher for the following _additional_ requirements to be placed on an application (X) which was covered by the GPL: 1) Users of application X or derivatives must register with the company that originally created application X. 2) If a company using application X ships a derivative of application X outside their own company, they must also ship a copy to the company which originally wrote application X. Now, I guess there are a couple ways that this could be viewed, the cost of registration and shipping derivative programs could be viewed as a cost. Still, these are mechanisms which might need to be put in place to insure that there was some kind of central clearinghouse that users could be guarenteed at least has had a chance to see all varients of an application. My sense is that the authors of the GPL sort of assumed that everyone is on internet and derivative programs would just sort of pop up there. I'm not sure if this is entirely a good assumption in the case of applications programs which are used in environments where people don't have internet access.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,b05af7b0abdbb309,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1992-01-27 21:03:29 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!sun-barr!cronkite.Central.Sun.COM!newstome.Corp.Sun.COM!finess.Corp.Sun.COM!rburns From: rburns@finess.Corp.Sun.COM (Randy Burns) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Question about GPL Keywords: GPL Message-ID: <ko9olmINNkms@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> Date: 28 Jan 92 04:57:26 GMT Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc., Mountain View, CA Lines: 20 NNTP-Posting-Host: finess.corp.sun.com