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Re: GPL and other licences
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Isaac |
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Re: GPL and other licences |
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Wed, 01 Feb 2006 18:15:53 -0600 |
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On Wed, 01 Feb 2006 16:03:16 +0100, Alfred M. Szmidt <ams@gnu.org> wrote:
> > This boils down to: Can you break the law at home? Of course you
> > can't. So the same applies to the GPL. Since you cannot mix two
> > incompatible licenses legally, then you cannot do this in the privacy
> > of your own internal use. It would in the end still be a violation of
> > copyright law.
>
> No it does not quite boil down to that. What it boils down to is
> whether the GPL grants permission to so mix the software at home as
> long as you do not distribute the combination.
>
> It does boil down to that, you are still violating the license, and in
> turn copyright law. Just that nobody knows of it so nobody can sue
> you.
This should be pretty easy to resolve. Show me the license provision of the
GPL that allows me to combine (and not distribute) GPL code that is broken
when I combine (but do not distribute) GPL and non GPL code. I don't
believe you can find a provision that does this. You can only find provisions
which disallow distribution of funky combinations.
Isaac
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