-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 >>Without copyright law, NO software license is enforceable. What other >>law would you use to legally enforce your rights as the producer of >>software? > > > While I agree with you, your statement and question do not answer my > question about where the GPL clearly states it is building upon > copyright law. If the GPL does, great, show me where? If the GPL > doesn't then we can't say it does. As far as I can tell the GPL is > just another license with some interesting features. But then the > recent Sony EULA also has some interesting features. ;)
Let me say first that I'm not answering your original questions. Next, let me make a broad statement of fact: ALL SOFTWARE LICENSES build upon copyright law. Perhaps there is a better way to phrase that statement but that is the gist of it. Without copyright law NO software license (GPL, EULA, Mozila, Propietary, foo, bar, baz) is enforceable nor does any license have to make such a statment because it is implied by the very fact that the license exists. :) BUT as you wish, this statement is pulled from the Preamble to the GPL: " We protect your rights with two steps: (1) copyright the software, and (2) offer you this license which gives you legal permission to copy, distribute and/or modify the software." http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html The only exception to my ALL licenses statement might be the BSD license because it has NO restrictions and therefore nothing to enforce. Without copyright law ALL software licenses would effectively be the same as BSD. Anyone could modify, copy, redistribute, keep to themselves, burn in effigy, etc. any software they could get hold of. - -- JT Morée PC Xperience, Inc. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDdfYxucZ4lMT2d5IRArzbAJ42WYDkxYv0XG1K+zNkjaMwZSjHJQCcDeaA OIsUXs4ZT0AN8QGdkIkuaJw= =8v4t -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
