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Re: GPL traitor !


From: Joerg Schilling
Subject: Re: GPL traitor !
Date: 15 May 2009 20:08:33 GMT

In article <2PUOl.50143$BX.47574@newsfe18.iad>,
Hyman Rosen  <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote:
>David Kastrup wrote:
>> So the wishes of the copyright holder simply cannot be guessed
> > from the license text itself
>
>When the copyright holder has chosen a particular license, all that
>is required from others is to abide by that license when required to
>do so. If the licensor were not happy with the terms of the license,
>it is a plausible inference that he would have chosen a different one.

Given the fact that the GPL is frequently misinterpreted, this claim does 
not help......


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