Re: US court says software is owned, not licensed

[Rui Maciel]

Alexander Terekhov wrote:

> WHO OWNS ALL THE COPIES YOU'VE MADE THANKS TO THE GPL, HEELER?

The authors of the GPLed software, the copyright owners, still own the 
copyright to any copy made of their 
work. The GPL states that the authors of the work covered by the license grant 
the right to use and 
distribute their work to anyone interested, as long as they follow a set of 
conditions presented in the GPL. 

The copyright owners won't lose their rights over their work just because 
someone made an extra copy of it.


Rui Maciel