Re: Circumventing the GPL

[rjack]

Hyman Rosen wrote:
> It occurs to me that in the U.S. there is a relatively easy
> way to circumvent the requirement of giving away source code
> for GPLed software.

You assume the GPL is enforceable and then scheme to circumvent it, but the 
license is preempted by 17 USC sec 301. You can't "circumvent" a copyright 
license that is intrinsically unenforceable.

Scheme no more my lad. Take up crochet or needlepoint.

Sincerely,
Rjack

--- "[I]f an extra element is required instead of or in addition to the acts of 
reproduction, performance, distribution or display in order to constitute a 
state-created cause of action, there is no preemption, provided that the extra 
element changes the nature of the action so that it is qualitatively different 
from a copyright infringement claim." Stromback v. New Line Cinema, 384 F.3d 283 
(United States Court Of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit 2004) ---