Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 6 Dec 2003 11:51:04 +0100 (MET) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: Linux GPL and binary module exception clause? |
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On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 18:28 -0800, Larry McVoy wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 12:08:31AM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote: > > > You either do that or you don't have permission to use my work. Whether > > > your own work is derived or not is completely irrelevant; if you don't > > > agree to the terms of _my_ licence, you don't get to use _my_ code. > > > > If and only if, as has been pointed out here many times, your license is > > enforceable. > > This is true. The above applies only if the licence is enforceable, as > Larry says. > > As has also been pointed out many times; if my licence is not > enforceable then it is void, and you have no right to use my work > whether you obey its conditions or not.
Interesting... So if it turns out that the use license of <insert any (commercial) software product here> is not enforceable, no one is allowed to use that product anymore, even if he paid for it?
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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