John Hasler wrote: [...] > with no access controls. Clearly, publishing something on the Web grants > an implicit license to the public to make those copies necessary to view > it: that's the whole point of the Web.
It's called implied license to begin with, uncle Hasler. And there's noting particularly interesting (for general public) to view in publicly available GPL'd *binaries* offered for unrestricted downloads all over the net. The implied license in this case (for those binaries) is to lawfully make as much copies as one wants to (without performing download multiple times for the same binary -- it's an implied license to save bandwidth). And all those copies empower their owners with rights under 17 USC 109 and 117. Horror, horror. regards, alexander. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
