John Hasler wrote: > > Richard writes: > > There seems to be a substantial profit for the "buyer" here: they get a > > program for nothing. > > They get a copy of the program (what they want) for whatever price they and > one of the supliers thereof agree on.
Yeah, and it's totally unforeseen phenomenon that GPL'd stuff is available for free downloading all over the net without any supply agreements, and, apart from downloads, can be friendly borrowed for copying for free from your friends. > There is no GPL "no charge" provision where copies are concerned. Nobody's claiming that. The claim is about price fixing of IP (apart from outright transfers of copyrights), which means transfers of IP right(s) (aka licenses) from the bundles owned by copyright owners. ----- Ownership of a copyright, or of any of the exclusive rights under a copyright, is distinct from ownership of any material object in which the work is embodied. Transfer of ownership of any material object, including the copy or phonorecord in which the work is first fixed, does not of itself convey any rights in the copyrighted work embodied in the object; nor, in the absence of an agreement, does transfer of ownership of a copyright or of any exclusive rights under a copyright convey property rights in any material object. ----- 17 USC 202, retard. regards, alexander. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
