Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > Nonsense. He can be _held_ to the terms of the license if he does > so. You would not need to sue for compliance if acceptance > happened automatically. > > Section 5: > > | Therefore, by modifying or distributing the Program (or any > | work based on the Program), you indicate your acceptance of > | this License to do so, and all its terms and conditions for > | copying, distributing or modifying the Program or works based > | on it. > > Acceptance doesn't happen automatically, it happens when you modify or > distribute the program. If he doesn't accept the license, he is > breaking the law. Simple.
YOU KEEP MISINTERPRETING MY WORDS!!!! Then don't use vauge words, or words that mean completely different things. By "automatic" I mean the license requires it. It is not automatic if the license requires it. You are free to not accept the license, nothing happens automatically. _You_ must accept the license by doing something, in the case of the GNU GPL copying or distributing the program or a derivate work of the program. It requires that if, after doing that, you take some code from your original portions of that combined work and use them in other original works those ALSO have to become GPL as well, essentially rendering the original code you put in the combined work worthless for non-GPL projects. Am I right on that? Again, this has been explained to you several times now. You are still the copyright holder of the code you wrote; you can license it in whatever way you please. If you make a deriviate work of a GNU GPL program by using code form such a program, then you must abide by the GNU GPL. And non-GPL projects can use GPL code, so you are spreading yet more misconceptions about things. There are many GPL compatible licenses. I suggest that you go back and read all the responses again, this has been answsered, reanswered, and re-reanswered. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
