Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code

[David Kastrup]

Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@web.de> writes:

> Stefaan A Eeckels wrote:
> [...]
> > In order to extract a file from a tarball, combine
> > it with other software, and distribute the result,
> > you have to make at least one copy. You cannot
> > distribute copies under first sale.
> 
> I'll feed the linker with that extracted copy from my brother's web 
> site. I'll pay him 0.01. Okay now?

If you fire a bullet at a person, your responsibility does not end
when the bullet leaves the barrel and decides to follow the course of
inertia.  If build a bomb, then pay someone to push the trigger, that
does not deliver you of your responsibility.

Judges are humans for a reason: to interpret the law according to its
meaning and intent and not be thwarted by insipid weaseling.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum