Messages in this thread | | | From | "David Schwartz" <> | Subject | RE: GPL issues | Date | Fri, 14 Apr 2006 11:56:55 -0700 |
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> Ahhh, but you're missing the whole point of the GPL. The GPL is > not really a normal license, it's a copyright license. Basically, > copyright law doesn't allow you to do *anything* with someone elses > work without permission. The GPL grants you such rights. > However, in exchange for this, you agree to follow the license when > redistributing your software that you built against the GPL:ed > software.
Bluntly, you're just completely wrong. If this were so, I could put up a billboard with a poem and then sue everyone who read it.
You should read http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html
Notice, for example, that the rights granted under copyright do *not* include the right to restrict the *use* of a work.
Far from copyright law starting out with the premise that you can do nothing with a work, it basically restricts copying or distribution of a work and the production of works based on that work other than what's necessary for ordinary use.
Specifically, copyright does not protect ordinary use. If you buy a CD, you get the right to use that CD simply by virtue of the fact that you lawfully possess a lawfully made of the music on that CD.
DS
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