Re: Re: GPL/LGPL

Ole,

Please see comments inline below...

On Tue, 05 Dec 2006, Ole Husgaard wrote:
>=20
> As for your "license termination" against Dave: This is not that easy
> with the GPL and LGPL license, as you would have known if you had asked
> a copyright lawyer who know these licenses. It is, however, quite easy
> to force somebody to adhere to the terms of the GPL or LGPL under the
> copyright law of almost all countries in the world.

Are you a lawyer?  I'm not, but this passage reads pretty clear to me:

    4. You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Program
  except as expressly provided under this License.  Any attempt
  otherwise to copy, modify, sublicense or distribute the Program is
  void, and will automatically terminate your rights under this License.

>=20
> Your requirement that the relevant license texts are distributed with
> your code is IMHO fair and reasonable.

Not my requirement:

    1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's
  source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you
  conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate
  copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the
  notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty;
  and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License
  along with the Program.

> If in doubt, please send me a private mail and I'll explain the legal
> implications.

Again, are you a lawyer?  (You seem to be offering legal advise.)
I am not a lawyer, but it strikes me as a bad idea to contemplate
distributing copies of something without the copyright holder's
permission, or, worse, against the copyright holder's wishes.

--brian


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