Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Apr 2005 08:54:05 -0300 | From | Humberto Massa <> | Subject | Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice. |
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David Schwartz wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 08:07:03PM -0700, David Schwartz wrote: > > > >> The way you stop someone from distributing part of your work is > >> by arguing that the work they are distributing is a derivative > >> work of your work and they had no right to *make* it in the first > >> place. See, for example, Mulcahy v. Cheetah Learning. > > > > Er, that's one way, but not *the* way. I could grant you > > permission to create derivatives of my work, but not to > > redistribute them. To stop you from distributing them, I'd argue > > that you had no right to distribute them--you *did* have the right > > to make it in the first place. > > > You could do that be means of a contract, but I don't think you could > it do by means of a copyright license. The problem is that there is > no right to control the distribution of derivative works for you to > withhold from me. Wrong, sorry. Copyright is a *monopoly* on some activities (copy, distribution of copies, making *and* distribution of derivative works).
HTH, Massa
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