GPL Licensing

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 5:06 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 04:14:24PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
>>>>
>>>> not to distribute anything to you. I'm entitled to exclude aol.com from
>>>> my
>>>> download site.
>>>>
>>>> So its an additional service with conditions.
>>>
>>> Yes, conditions that are an additional restriction of what I can do with
>>> a GPL-covered work.
>>
>> Its an additional service.
>
> And taking it away or making it conditional based on giving up your GPL
> right is a restriction.
>
>> It doesn't change your GPL rights. If you can't grasp
>> that basic concept then I think you have a problem.
>
> No, I can't grasp the concept that a restriction that involves a penalty is
> not a restriction.
>

And as long you keep insisting that your definition of how the law is
versus how the legal system sees it.. I don't see this changing. You
might as well say the GPL isn't valid because it doesn't use ALL
CAPITAL LETTERS IN ALL PARTS or some other nutter idea.


-- 
Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed
in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"