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Re: the GPL is a license not a contract ..


From: Hyman Rosen
Subject: Re: the GPL is a license not a contract ..
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:39:27 -0400
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Rjack wrote:
Hyman Rosen wrote:
Violation of the GPL will be considered copyright infringement no
matter how you might like to natter on about contracts and flavors of conditions.

GNUtians never lose -- they just mooooooooooooove the goalposts.

The position of the FSF has never wavered. That violation of the
GPL constitutes copyright infringement is their belief, and it is
so written into the text of the GPL itself. It is only the opponents
of the GPL who desperately cast about for theories to promulgate as
to why the GPL will not work exactly as it says.


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