[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gordon Burditt) writes: > Sorry, FSF, there's nothing you can do about this. I don't need a > license from you to distribute the patch. It's not derived [hint: > this is a term defined specifically for copyright law] from your > software, so I don't need your license. The fact that the patch is > useless without GPL software is irrelevant - that's not the way > copyright law works. Gas engines are useless without gas, but that > doesn't mean I need a license from an oil company to sell engines.
Because oil is a substance, not a medium with copyable content. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
