RJack <u...@example.net> writes: > Hyman Rosen wrote: >> On 4/13/2010 9:34 AM, Alexander Terekhov wrote: >>> Hyman Rosen wrote: >>>> It's easy to read the first-sale doctrine, but fortunately it >>>> does not apply to the copying and distribution carried out by the >>>> defendants in this case. >>> >>> Sez who? >> >> The GPL, of course, which does not allow copying and distribution of >> covered works without compliance. > > The GPL allows copying and distribution through promissory estoppel.
It would be quite hard to figure out a deceptively suggested promise that a defendant could claim to have relied on. The GPL is very clear in its conditions, permissions and implications. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
