On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 3:06 PM, Hugo Roy <[email protected]> wrote: > ↪ 2015-09-24 Thu 14:07, Sam Liddicott <[email protected]>: >> 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. > > It depends. Copyright laws give a monopoly on certain activities > related to a “work” (which can be e.g. a computer program or a novel). > > More precisely for software, the rights to reproduce, to adapt as well > as the right to distribute forms of the software are restricted > activities (see EU directive 91/250, article 4).
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:32009L0024 Interesting. I'm not personally subject to EU directives. I'm now trying to find out if any members states have implemented it yet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Programs_Directive http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/3233/contents/made So it seems unlikely to be prohibited yet; and in the instance under discussion I still think that it is not prohibited by the conflict of the two licences in question which grant freedom to use, placing restrictions on the distribution. Sam _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
