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Re: When is a GPL program which runs in a web site 'conveyed'?
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Tim Smith |
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Re: When is a GPL program which runs in a web site 'conveyed'? |
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Mon, 07 Jul 2008 09:58:41 -0700 |
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In article <G3pck.44405$Wb2.38248@fe107.usenetserver.com>,
Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote:
> > If they had wanted something stronger, they could have easily written
> > the license to define modification as being any change from the original.
>
> No, they cannot, because as rjack points out, the courts
> have decided that a copyright license can only prohibit that
> which is already disallowed under copyright absent any license.
> The only thing the GPL (and AGPL) can do is grant you extra
> freedoms.
They aren't require to stick to using a bare copyright license. They
could instead make the license a contract (like almost every other free
software/open source license...), and then there would be no problem
with prohibiting things that are otherwise allowed under copyright law.
There's a good discussion in Rosen's book on open source licensing of
why it is best to make your open source licenses be contracts.
--
--Tim Smith
- Re: When is a GPL program which runs in a web site 'conveyed'?, (continued)
- Re: When is a GPL program which runs in a web site 'conveyed'?, Tim Smith, 2008/07/04
- Re: When is a GPL program which runs in a web site 'conveyed'?, David Kastrup, 2008/07/04
- Re: When is a GPL program which runs in a web site 'conveyed'?, Alexander Terekhov, 2008/07/04
- Re: When is a GPL program which runs in a web site 'conveyed'?, Hyman Rosen, 2008/07/06
- Re: When is a GPL program which runs in a web site 'conveyed'?, Tim Smith, 2008/07/06
- Re: When is a GPL program which runs in a web site 'conveyed'?, Alexander Terekhov, 2008/07/07
- Re: When is a GPL program which runs in a web site 'conveyed'?, Hyman Rosen, 2008/07/07
- Re: When is a GPL program which runs in a web site 'conveyed'?, Hyman Rosen, 2008/07/07
- Re: When is a GPL program which runs in a web site 'conveyed'?, Alexander Terekhov, 2008/07/07
- Re: When is a GPL program which runs in a web site 'conveyed'?, Hyman Rosen, 2008/07/07
- Re: When is a GPL program which runs in a web site 'conveyed'?,
Tim Smith <=
- Re: When is a GPL program which runs in a web site 'conveyed'?, Alexander Terekhov, 2008/07/08
- Re: When is a GPL program which runs in a web site 'conveyed'?, Hyman Rosen, 2008/07/08
- Re: When is a GPL program which runs in a web site 'conveyed'?, rjack, 2008/07/08
- Re: When is a GPL program which runs in a web site 'conveyed'?, Hyman Rosen, 2008/07/08
- Re: When is a GPL program which runs in a web site 'conveyed'?, John Hasler, 2008/07/08
- Re: When is a GPL program which runs in a web site 'conveyed'?, Hyman Rosen, 2008/07/08
- Re: When is a GPL program which runs in a web site 'conveyed'?, Alexander Terekhov, 2008/07/08
- Re: When is a GPL program which runs in a web site 'conveyed'?, Hyman Rosen, 2008/07/08
- Re: When is a GPL program which runs in a web site 'conveyed'?, rjack, 2008/07/08
- Re: When is a GPL program which runs in a web site 'conveyed'?, David Kastrup, 2008/07/09