Hyman Rosen wrote: > > Alexander Terekhov wrote: > > Lack of virality regarding compilations is explicitly covered > > by "mere aggregation > > This is false, of course, as any normal person reading the > licenses can see. Choosing to deliberately misread a license > isn't even any good for arguing on Usenet, much less forming > a basis from which to run a software business. > > > The FSF is on record > > Once again, you are deliberately misstating what the FSF said, > which was that GPLed programs contained on a Linux distribution > medium fell under the "mere aggregation" clause and did not > cause the distribution medium as whole to fall under the GPL. > > They made no such statement regarding programs built with GPLed > components, since in fact this is the opposite of what the GPL > states. > > Do you truly believe you gain some rhetorical advantage by > outright lies?
Aggregation of modules (computer program works, see 17 USC 101) under separate and independent copyrights is the same as aggregation of "programs contained on a Linux distribution", idiot. http://www.terekhov.de/Wallace_v_FSF_37.pdf "In fact, the GPL itself rejects any automatic aggregation of software copyrights under the GPL simply because one program licensed under the GPL is distributed together with another program that is not licensed under the GPL: "In addition, mere aggregation of another work not based on the Program with the Program (or with a work based on the Program) on a volume of a storage or distribution medium does not bring the other work under the scope of this License." Plaintiff's mischaracterization of the GPL in his Response has no bearing on the resolution of the pending Motion to Dismiss because the Court can examine the GPL itself. "[T]o the extent that the terms of an attached contract conflict with the allegations of the complaint, the contract controls." Centers v. Centennial Mortg., Inc., 398 F.3d 930, 933 (7th Cir. 2005)." 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 [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
