Re: More FSF hypocrisy

[Alexander Terekhov]

"Hyman Rosen" <hyrosen@mail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:gQwyl.8833$qt1.3344@newsfe10.iad...
> Alexander Terekhov wrote:
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doctrine_of_the_General_Talking_Pictures_Case 
> > http://opensource.org/docs/osd
> > No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor
>
> So what? The GTP case demonstrates that rights holders may establish
> limits through clearly expressed licenses. That the limits there are
> scope-of-use and the GPL's are source-with-distribution doesn't mean
> that the general principle is different.

Licensee's obligation to provide distributees with access to source code has 
nothing to do with scope-of-use limitations and conditions precedent. Such 
provision creates contractual right entitling distributees to have access to 
source code. Breaching that provision (denying that contractual right) 
doesn't infringe licensor's exclusive rights under the copyright law.

regards,
alexander.

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