Re: Microsoft needs a help strategy

[Hyman Rosen]

David Kastrup wrote:
> Since when?  If I send a personal letter to someone, I don't charge a
> fee for it.  He still is not authorized for redistributing my letter or
> using its content in publications of his.

This is the usual argument of the "GPL is invalid" claimers.
They say that they can honor the part of the GPL which allows
anyone to make copies and distribute them but ignore the part
of the license which tells them what they must do in return.

It's just like when you buy a car. You are told that you may
drive away with the car in return for a sum of money, and you
accept the "drive away with the car part" and do so, but say
that you do not need to honor the "in return for a sum of
money" part. It's unlikely that the forces of the law will be
amused by the argument in the case of the car or the GPL.