Hyman Rosen wrote: [...] > > suppose I simply provide a written offer regarding source code. > > You come to me for the source code with that offer. > > I [refuse]. > > How does that would violate the copyright act? > > It wouldn't. You would have correctly complied with the conditions > for copying, and therefore there is no copyright violation. But I > now possess a written promise from you which you are not honoring, > so my course of action would be to sue for breach of contract, not > of the GPL but of your written offer.
You're making progress Hyman!!! But what does a "condition" to GIVE written offer has to do with rights spelled out in 17 USC 106 in the first place? The nexus is non-existent. See the light now? regards, alexander. -- http://gng.z505.com/index.htm (GNG is a derecursive recursive derecursion which pwns GNU since it can be infinitely looped as GNGNGNGNG...NGNGNG... and can be said backwards too, whereas GNU cannot.) _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss