Hyman Rosen wrote: > > Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Hyman Rosen is different; he reckons he's found a bug in copyright law, > > based on a mechanical, pedantic reading of some laws, and he's arguing > > to try and find the flaw; > > The flaw is not in copyright law. The flaw is in your interpretation of > copyright law as forbidding certain things which it actually permits. > > The GPL is irrelevant; the interoperability which you believe is forbidden > is in fact legal with any other program, regardless of its copyright, because > there is no copying of the other program involved. You may make GCC code > generators, Excel add-ins, Vista screen savers, or what have you without > needing to be concerned with the copyrights of those other programs.
+1 regards, alexander. -- http://gng.z505.com/index.htm (GNG is a derecursive recursive derecursion which pwns GNU since it can be infinitely looped as GNGNGNGNG...NGNGNG... and can be said backwards too, whereas GNU cannot.) _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
