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Re: Question About GNU General Public License


From: Rui Miguel Seabra
Subject: Re: Question About GNU General Public License
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 20:26:51 +0100

On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 16:41 +0200, Alexander Terekhov wrote:
> telford@xenon.triode.net.au wrote:
> > 
> > In gnu.misc.discuss Momchil Velikov <velco@fadata.bg> wrote:
> > 
> > > Or you can send me the disk.  Note that you can't copy the work to a
> > > diskette and then send me the diskette, because you can't copy.
> > 
> > If I burn a CDROM containing GPL code (i.e. make a copy) and mail
> > that CDROM (i.e. distribute a copy) then I am the distributer so
> > I am bound by the GPL. 
> 
> 17 USC 109 says that you're not bound as far as copyright law is
> concerned.

Where exactly?

http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/109.html

Seems to disagree with you... except if you are a particular kind of
institution.

>  Read also
> 
> http://www.copyright.gov/reports/studies/dmca/reply/Reply008.pdf

There's a difference between a desireable thing (2nd link), and the
thing that one has (1st link).

-- 
+ No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown
+ Whatever you do will be insignificant,
| but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi
+ So let's do it...?

Please AVOID sending me WORD, EXCEL or POWERPOINT attachments.
See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html

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