Re: Effect of transfer of copyright on free software licenses?

[Hyman Rosen]

Rjack wrote:
> 17 USC 301(a) preempts copyright contracts whose terms attempt to
> regulate copyrights outside of contractual privity -- that is to
> say contracts that attempt to regulate "all third parties".

Fortunately, the GPL does not attempt to regulate all
third parties. 17 USC 301 is completely irrelevant to
the operation of the GPL, since the GPL is simply a
copyright license, functioning solely under copyright
law.