Rjack <[email protected]> writes: > Thufir Hawat wrote: >> On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:55:58 -0400, Hyman Rosen wrote: >> >>> Since no one is forced to use the GPL, the GPL cannot thrust >>> anything upon anyone. >> [...] >>> It is extremely ill-suited to whiners who feel entitled to the >>> work of others while denying those others the remuneration they >>> want for their work, namely freedom for their users. > > ROFL ROFL ROFL > > The renumeration they demand is contractual control of other's > exclusive copyrights -- which is clearly illegal.
Nonsense. The copyright of others is retained by them when redistributing modified GPLed software. They have the non-exclusive permission of creating and distributing without further negotiation a work with combined copyrights when heeding particular terms. There is a case where it makes sense talking about contractual control: the FSF demands a copyright assignment for inclusion into some FSF-distributed GNU software. Those assignments are not automatic, but require a written contract undersigned by both parties. Again, this is not "illegal" but rather standard legal practice. > Only in Stallman's hypocritical land of GNU do people call attempts at > lawbreaking "whining" while simultaneously complaining (whining) about > monopolists like Microsoft and their licensing practices. > > The only thing worse than "whining" is hypocritical "whining" from > GNU dittoheads. You don't have a clue about legal matters obviously, but it appears that you have lost a clue about what you intended to be talking about as well. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
