Hiya * Mac: > Matthew East wrote: > That seems to me not contract, but a beautiful and unexpected > inversion of copyright law.
A "beautiful inversion of copyright law" isn't a legal concept. The extract you've cited from Eben isn't addressing the mechanism by which an author who publishes material under the GPL agrees a carve out from his copyrights, it's addressing the result. The mechanism is by way of a license (which, as per my previous email, is a type of contract). Here is a reasonable article on how the basics work - http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/20050325novalis.html Still, it doesn't matter too much for the purposes of discussing the more intricate parts of the GPL v3, I just felt that it was worthwhile to understand the basic concepts. Matt -- http://www.mdke.org gnupg pub 1024D/0E6B06FF
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