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From: | Hyman Rosen |
Subject: | Re: Microsoft's Linux Kernel Code Drop Result of GPL Violation |
Date: | Sun, 26 Jul 2009 22:32:57 -0400 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows/20090605) |
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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