Using Copyright WAS: Re: [PD-dev] Political Impropriety

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Jan 4, 2006, at 2:00 PM, Marc Lavallée wrote:

> Le 4 Janvier 2006 12:18, B. Bogart a écrit :
>> Ah, but it says "coping AND distribution" so you would be free to copy
>> as long as much as you want as long as you don't distribute it.  
>> (which I
>>   guess means provide copies to other people).
>
> Yes.
>
> And the GPL also allow to use your own modifications for your own  
> business,
> without compulsory redistribution. If it was not the case, the FSF  
> would be
> thrilled about DRM and "trusted computing"...

Actually, no.  Check CC's "human readable" version:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/GPL/2.0/

"If you copy or distribute the program, you must accompany it with the  
complete corresponding machine-readable source code or with a written  
offer, valid for at least three years, to furnish the complete  
corresponding machine-readable source code."

.hc


>> if there was a free software law list I would suggest this thread move
>> to there, but I have no idea if there is one...
>
> I found one, the "Free Software Law list", but it's not very active :
> http://alt.org/mailman/listinfo/fsl-discuss
> Sorry for polluting the pd-dev list...
>
>> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>> Actually, the GPL covers copying and distribution.  So I suppose if  
>>> you
>>> never copied a single file, then you would not have to release the
>>> source.  But even if you copied a fraction of a file, then the  
>>> license
>>> terms kick in.
>
> It's more when you are distributing that it really kicks in. The  
> source code
> "must be distributed" if and only if the program (original or based on  
> it)
> is also distributed.
> --
> Marc
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