Re: Microsoft needs a help strategy

[David Kastrup]

"amicus_curious" <ACDC@sti.net> writes:

> "David Kastrup" <dak@gnu.org> wrote in message
> 85bptrnsam.fsf@lola.goethe.zz">news:85bptrnsam.fsf@lola.goethe.zz...
>
>>
>> The recipient of GPLed software is free to declare the GPL void and
>> revert to default copyright rules.
>>
> What is at issue today, though, is the nature of such "default
> copyright rules".  If there is no fee charged to use the work or to
> redistribute the work, the copyright can be ignored unless the author
> can show some degree of harm to himself.

Since when?  If I send a personal letter to someone, I don't charge a
fee for it.  He still is not authorized for redistributing my letter or
using its content in publications of his.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum