from: Godwin Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 14:17:41 +0200 Subject: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040618/tc_nm/tech_france_microsoft_dc_2
----8<----8<----Original message starts----8<----8<---- Dear Sirs, In the story entitled "France Challenges Microsoft in Software Re-Fit" currently published on news.yahoo.com at the URL in the subject: of this mail, you write: "Open-source software -- uncopyrighted software which has no license cost -- like Linux" This is incorrect. OSS (Open Source Software) *is* copyrighted. Regardless of what the author of a piece of OSS allows users to do with it, he or she still *owns* the software. This is made quite clear in the terms of the GNU General Public License http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html : In the preamble: "We protect your rights with two steps: (1) copyright the software, and (2) offer you this license which gives you legal permission to copy, distribute and/or modify the software." In article 0 of the Terms and Conditions for Copying, Distribution and Modification: "This License applies to any program or other work which contains a notice placed by the copyright holder...." There are many other references to the term "copyright" within the text of this license. ----8<----8<-----Original message ends-----8<----8<---- -- G. Stewart -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user #284683 (Slackware 9.0, Linux 2.6.7-em8300) -------------------------------------------------------------- What's the definition of a will? (It's a dead giveaway). Linux-Azur : http://www.linux-azur.org Désinscriptions: http://www.linux-azur.org/liste.php3 **** Pas de message au format HTML, SVP ****
