Re: What's the status of sourceless live linux distros?

[David Kastrup]

Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:

> * Alexander Terekhov:
>
>> FSF's copyleft is barred by the doctrine of first sale and the
>> doctrine of copyright misuse.
>
> Yes, of course,

Since when can you "barr" a unilateral permission?  You can ignore it,
if you want to.  No "barring" necessary.  The GPL itself states that.
So instead of "yes, of course, ..." this should rather be "even if we
assume for a moment that you are right here ...".

> but the only thing you'd be able to do is to redistributed pristine
> sources and binaries compiled by others.  As a result, this loophole
> doesn't really help die-hard software hoarders.

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