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

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"Alexander Terekhov" <terekhov@web.de> wrote in message 
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> You're mistaken, Hyman. 17 USC 109.
That seems like the start of a cute trick.  If I make a copy from a 
legitimate source, then it is a legitimate copy that I can give away.  I 
cannot copy it, but I can give it away.  So if I make a million copies 
directly from the legitimate source, I have a million legitimate copies that 
I can dispose of any way that I please, either give them away or sell them 
if I can.  The GPL does not restrict that.

It seems to me that I have no obligation to give away everything as a whole, 
either.  I can give away the executable code and not give away the copy of 
the source or the copy of the GPL license that came with the copy I made.