On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 13:50, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > The modified software can be modified by the recipient only if he > > tellss the public at large. This is the same condition. > > So you are now saying that the license imposes a restriction on > modification even if I don't distribute anything at all? That makes > it beyond the power of copyright law at all, it seems to me.
Let me point you to the plain language of 17 USC? I am quoting for you the relevant section of 106: "(2) to prepare derivative works based upon the copyrighted work;" Note that it does not say: "(2) to dsitribute derivative works based upon the copyrighted work;" My only consolation in this farce is that Nelson is equally wrong when he replies to you claiming the GPL is a contract. -- -Dave Turner Stalk Me: 617 441 0668 "On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock." -Thomas Jefferson
