On 3/29/2010 4:28 PM, Alexander Terekhov wrote:
http://www.btlj.org/data/articles/21_04_04.pdf
This is a quote of one person's opinions, not of a decided case, so it needs to be understood in that light.
"A licensor who contractually prohibited the combination of its software with other programs in situations where adaptation rights are not affected would exceed the scope of its copyright by seeking to control external activities and subject matter—namely, the use of independent programs.
Fortunately, the GPL does not prohibit this, so any analysis of the consequences of such a prohibition is irrelevant to the GPL. <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> A “covered work” means either the unmodified Program or a work based on the Program. .... You may make, run and propagate covered works that you do not convey, without conditions so long as your license otherwise remains in force. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
