On Wed, 01 Feb 2006 16:03:16 +0100, Alfred M. Szmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This boils down to: Can you break the law at home? Of course you > > can't. So the same applies to the GPL. Since you cannot mix two > > incompatible licenses legally, then you cannot do this in the privacy > > of your own internal use. It would in the end still be a violation of > > copyright law. > > No it does not quite boil down to that. What it boils down to is > whether the GPL grants permission to so mix the software at home as > long as you do not distribute the combination. > > It does boil down to that, you are still violating the license, and in > turn copyright law. Just that nobody knows of it so nobody can sue > you.
This should be pretty easy to resolve. Show me the license provision of the GPL that allows me to combine (and not distribute) GPL code that is broken when I combine (but do not distribute) GPL and non GPL code. I don't believe you can find a provision that does this. You can only find provisions which disallow distribution of funky combinations. Isaac _______________________________________________ Gnu-misc-discuss mailing list Gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
