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From: | Alan Mackenzie |
Subject: | Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar |
Date: | Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:14:36 +0000 (UTC) |
User-agent: | tin/1.6.2-20030910 ("Pabbay") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/4.11-RELEASE (i386)) |
In gnu.misc.discuss Doug Mentohl <doug_mentohl@linuxmail.org> wrote: > flattie amicus Rjack wrote: >> This is the central flaw of the GPL license. It attempts to secure the >> exclusive rights of a modifying author who accepts GPL code by >> attempting to force them to license their modifications "to all third >> parties" under terms of the GPL. A "viral" public copyright license is >> the very definition of copyright misuse. > What you are engaged in here is a tautological inexactitude. A license > can't be simultaneously exclusive or applicable 'to all'. Oh yes it can. It can be simultaneously applicable 'to all'. I think that's know as a "pedantic inexactitude". ;-) -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
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