Re: Artifex v. Diebold: "The GPL is non-commercial!"

[Rui Miguel Silva Seabra]

On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 02:15:58AM -0500, Hyman Rosen wrote:
> Alexander Terekhov wrote:
>> What does that ("honoring the terms of the GPL for standalone
>> Ghostscript") have to do with the copyright law, Hyman?
> > The GPL is not the copyright law, don't you agree with that, Hyman?
>
> Copyright law forbids Diebold from making copies of Ghostscript
> and distributing them. In order to do so legally, they must have
> permission from the copyright holder. That permission comes either
> from the GPL or from a separate license agreement with Artifex.

And if they are using the permission from the GNU GPL, they can even
make money out of it, their problem is a misjudgment between what is
commercial and what is proprietary.

Rui

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