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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!worldnet.att.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.bc.net!torn!news.unb.ca!fan1!aa126 From: aa126@fan.nb.ca (William Burrow) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: GPL Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Date: 11 Feb 1997 01:41:15 GMT Organization: Fredericton Area Network Lines: 21 Message-ID: <5doinr$jnl@sol.sun.csd.unb.ca> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <32ED1866.34F02393@indiana.edu> <5cl66d$l52@web.nmti.com> <5cmiuu$iud@garuda.synet.net> <5cokgi$alm@web.nmti.com> <L3U8y0gTz/TM091yn@ibm.net> <32F167BB.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> <0rnuc5.3e1.ln@zen> <5cvodo$hme@omega.gmd.de> <m23evgchq9.fsf@maxwell.sfhs.floyd.k12.ky.us> <a5d2jpo$bb1@omega.gmd.de> <LJn9y0gTzz1L091yn@ibm.net> <5df12n$ckb@kadri.ut.ee> <32FB2982.7DA2@umich.edu> <5dmnn7$gv8@kadri.ut.ee> NNTP-Posting-Host: fan1.fan.nb.ca X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:157528 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2444 Sander Vesik (sander@haldjas.folklore.ee) wrote: : As far as I know it doesn't. And I doubt that it ever will. I : somewhy think you did delete too much of the context. The talk was about : German laws, software licences (or the lack of those) and whetever or not : any company could sell a "value added" version of gcc, not distribute the : sources (or not allow you to do so) and get away with it. I *do* think : that it may be possible in some cases. And yes, all these cases are in : violation of the licence. Which in most cases again means nothing if the : judge thinks otherwise. This is why, IMHO, some people had better get onto the WIPO board and get GPL into some realm of ``ordinary'' copyright, rather than left to the opinion of various courts. -- William Burrow -- Fredericton Area Network, New Brunswick, Canada Copyright 1997 William Burrow This line left intentionally blank. And the one below it.