On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 02:15:58AM -0500, Hyman Rosen wrote:
> Alexander Terekhov wrote:
>> What does that ("honoring the terms of the GPL for standalone
>> Ghostscript") have to do with the copyright law, Hyman?
> > The GPL is not the copyright law, don't you agree with that, Hyman?
>
> Copyright law forbids Diebold from making copies of Ghostscript
> and distributing them. In order to do so legally, they must have
> permission from the copyright holder. That permission comes either
> from the GPL or from a separate license agreement with Artifex.And if they are using the permission from the GNU GPL, they can even make money out of it, their problem is a misjudgment between what is commercial and what is proprietary. Rui -- Or not. Today is Sweetmorn, the 39th day of The Aftermath in the YOLD 3174 + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi + So let's do it...? _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
