On 2015-06-08 15:35, Pontus Pihlgren wrote:
On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 03:21:51PM +0200, Johnny Billquist wrote:
Uh... You cannot choose who to distribute it to. That is the whole
point of GPL, and is what puts it apart from just any company
copyright control.
Certainly I can :) at least in the first step.
You can choose not to distribute. But you cannot say that you only want
to distribute to me, for example, and expect that your obligations would
then be limited to me. I have every right to pass your software on, and
you have the obligation to provide sources to anyone who then asks for them.
If you make it available to anyway, who have to make it available to
everyone.
Not sure I understand.
My brain and fingers are not cooperating today. It should have read:
"If you make it available to anyone, you have to make it available to
everyone". As soon as you distribute it, anyone can get it, and thus you
become obliged to provide the source to anyone.
Sorry about this diversion. I'll stop comment on this topic now. I agree
that it's the field of lawyers, and not really interesting from a simh
point of view, not to mention that this can easily become a rather
infected discussion.
Johnny
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