Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > Let's go for emacs and openssl. If there is no distribution of >> > emacs+openssl, then there is no problem. Are you asserting that this >> > is the case? > > On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 08:07:39PM -0400, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: >> Yes. I am asserting that I can combine OpenSSL and Emacs code to >> produce an arbitrary functional result, except that I may not remove >> Emacs' interactive startup notice unless I also remove its >> interactivity. > > If you do this as an original creative work, and keep that work to > yourself, then you are probably fine in the U.S. I don't know about > other countries. > > However, anything more than that and to my knowledge you don't have a > license for that.
But I've explained several times that the OpenSSL and GNU General Public licenses both give me permission to make modifications, following certain small restrictions -- and while those restrictions include that I maintain copyright notices, that would look something like this: "Portions copyright (c) Free Software Foundation 1984-2004. Portions copyright (c) Tatu Ylonen, Eric Young, and the OpenSSL team 1992-2004." Those restrictions include nothing about licensing requirements, and you've never cited a portion of the GPL which imposes licensing requirements on undistributed works. Please do so, quoting this message in its entirety and replying inline. > In particular, if your contribution to this work isn't original (if you > don't hold copyright on this work), then I claim you are breaking the law. > > Or, if it is original and you're creating [publishing] many copies then > you are probably still breaking the law -- either because you've not > kept intact the notices of license or because you are violating one of > those licenses. Creating many copies is not equivalent to Publishing. If I create many copies and store them in my basement, I am not a publisher and I am distributing nothing. The GPL's provisions which restrict the licenses under which new copies may be distributed do not apply to copies which are not distributed, only made and kept privately. -Brian -- Brian Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
