Re: Yes: The linux devs can rescind their license grant. GPLv2 is a bare license and is revocable by

2019-01-06 Thread vnsndalce
That may be OpenBSD policy, but it is not the law. Your OpenBSD policy cannot bind the copyright holder of the works you distribute. It's also an incorrect statement of the law. If the copyright holder did not receive consideration/payment/etc from you: you have no interest to bind him with.

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2018-12-28 Thread vnsndalce
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2018-12-28 Thread vnsndalce
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Re: Yes: The linux devs can rescind their license grant. GPLv2 is a bare license and is revocable by the grantor.

2018-12-28 Thread Raul Miller
On Thu, Dec 27, 2018 at 3:12 PM wrote: > ... pompous programmer asshole*. I think you are projecting your own personality in your perception of others (which is a natural thing to do - everyone does that to some degree). That said, I am going to filter your messages to my spam bucket from now

Re: Yes: The linux devs can rescind their license grant. GPLv2 is a bare license and is revocable by the grantor.

2018-12-27 Thread vsnsdualce
(2) ... (I am not going to go over the legal mistakes you've made, because of (1))... I have not made legal mistakes, pompous programmer a__hole*. A gratuitous license, absent an attached interest, is revocable at will. This goes for GPLv2 as used by linux, just as it goes for the BSD

Re: Yes: The linux devs can rescind their license grant. GPLv2 is a bare license and is revocable by the grantor.

2018-12-27 Thread vsnsdualce
(2) ... (I am not going to go over the legal mistakes you've made, because of (1))... I have not made legal mistakes, pompous programmer asshole*. A gratuitous license, absent an attached interest, is revocable at will. This goes for GPLv2 as used by linux, just as it goes for the BSD

Yes: The linux devs can rescind their license grant. GPLv2 is a bare license and is revocable by the grantor.

2018-12-24 Thread vsnsdualce
Bradley M. Kuhn: The SFConservancy's new explanation was refuted 5 hours after it was published: Yes they can, greg. The GPL v2, is a bare license. It is not a contract. It lacks consideration between the licensee and the grantor. (IE: They didn't pay you, Greg, a thing. YOU, Greg,