Alexander Terekhov wrote:
"Hyman Rosen" <[email protected]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:[email protected]...
Alexander Terekhov wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doctrine_of_the_General_Talking_Pictures_Case
http://opensource.org/docs/osd
No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor
So what? The GTP case demonstrates that rights holders may establish
limits through clearly expressed licenses. That the limits there are
scope-of-use and the GPL's are source-with-distribution doesn't mean
that the general principle is different.
Licensee's obligation to provide distributees with access to source code
has nothing to do with scope-of-use limitations and conditions
precedent. Such provision creates contractual right entitling
distributees to have access to source code. Breaching that provision
(denying that contractual right) doesn't infringe licensor's exclusive
rights under the copyright law.
Truer words were never spoken.
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