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Re: Microsoft's Linux Kernel Code Drop Result of GPL Violation


From: Hyman Rosen
Subject: Re: Microsoft's Linux Kernel Code Drop Result of GPL Violation
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 22:32:57 -0400
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Rjack wrote:
"A copyright license is a contract like any other contract".

Be that as it may, 17 USC 301 is still completely irrelevant to
the GPL, because the GPL is a copyright license, and it grants
certain permissions which would otherwise be forbidden by
copyright law. Federal preemption of state copyright laws have
no relevance to the GPL.


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