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Re: Are Microsofts patent lawyers really thisdumb?
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Alexander Terekhov |
Subject: |
Re: Are Microsofts patent lawyers really thisdumb? |
Date: |
Sat, 14 Jul 2007 19:40:31 +0200 |
"Alfred M. Szmidt" wrote:
>
> > Sure I can, I am talking about the actual _LICENSE_. The FSF
> > even sells nicely printed copies of it, did you know that?
>
> You mean the license _document_. The license is an abstact bundle of
> rights.
>
> You deserve a cookie for nitpicking. :-)
Hey ams, uncle Hasler means that the FSF sells *copies* of GPL'd works
and (according to you) *copies* of the GPL itself (man oh man, one must
be thoroughly insane to buy that).
Copies are material objects, other than phonorecords, in which a work
is fixed by any method now known or later developed, and from which the
work can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated, either
directly or with the aid of a machine or device. The term copies
includes the material object, other than a phonorecord, in which the
work is first fixed.
(17 USC 101.)
Note that the license to the GPL (apparently copyrighted, not
copylefted) work itself is this:
"Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this
license document, but changing it is not allowed."
It isn't "free" (under "free" software definition).
regards,
alexander.
--
"Mathematics is primarily a language for ensuring reliable results
in human social activity. "
-- Columbia Professor Eben Anarcho-Dot Communist Moglen
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