Alexander Terekhov wrote: > Non-commercial use IS a common scope-of-use limitation
The patent holder limited the manufacturer to selling the amplifiers to non-commercial users. When the manufacturer sold them to commercial users, those users did not acquire the patent-exhaustion rights the non-commercial buyers got. The GPL licenses copying and distribution only if the work as a whole is distributed as specified by the GPL. Otherwise there is no legal right to do so, and doing it anyway is infringement on the rights of the copyright holder. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
