On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 10:27 AM, Hugo Roy <[email protected]> wrote: > Le 24 septembre 2015 11:25:11 GMT+02:00, Sam Liddicott <[email protected]> a > écrit : >>To my understanding, works can be developed and also used privately by >>the developer in the case where the licensing combinations do not >>permit copying as coverd by copyright law. > > Why do you think that? Can you elaborate?
The GPL license is a conditional permission to do something that would otherwise be forbidden by copyright. Copyright does not prohibit such development, so no new permission is required. For the same reason I can buy books and build a castle out of them, or re-order the pages or write my own stories based on them even including large parts of the original book. But I may not distribute these works without permission from the rights holder. Sam _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
