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| From: | Hyman Rosen |
| Subject: | Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record |
| Date: | Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:27:35 -0400 |
| User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) |
rjack wrote:
The trouble is you can't write a copyright license that controls "all third parties" as long "as they follow the GPL". Congress specifically forbid this situation with 17 USC sec. 301.
That's the federal preemption clause. What does that have to do with anything? Who says anything about controlling anyone? The distributor is licensing the code to all third parties under the terms of the GPL. The third parties can take it or leave it.
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