From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964975AbVHaV3W (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Aug 2005 17:29:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964976AbVHaV3W (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Aug 2005 17:29:22 -0400 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:42727 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964975AbVHaV3W (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Aug 2005 17:29:22 -0400 Message-Id: <200508312128.j7VLST47010653@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.1-RC3 To: "Jeff V. Merkey" Cc: Arjan van de Ven , Rik van Riel , linux Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] DSFS Network Forensic File System for Linux Patches In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 31 Aug 2005 12:00:45 MDT." <4315F04D.5050705@soleranetworks.com> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <4315DBE7.7080002@soleranetworks.com> <4315E88D.9020603@soleranetworks.com> <1125514716.3213.24.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <4315F04D.5050705@soleranetworks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1125523708_1457P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 17:28:28 -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --==_Exmh_1125523708_1457P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 12:00:45 MDT, "Jeff V. Merkey" said: > There's also a more fundamental problem with the GPL language. The GPL stated it > confers "RIGHT TO COPY". This is not the same as "RIGHT TO GRANT > LICENSES TO DISTRIBUTE." Under US copyright law, if you confer to any person > the "right to copy" in a license which states the software is FREE, you have in essense > affected a copyright transfer to each and every person who receives the > code. Bullshit. 17 USC 106(3) talks about transfer of ownership *of the item*, not of the copyright itself (see 17 USC 202, which clarifies this). So you can sell a book - but that isn't transferring the copyright of the book. There isn't any actual transfer without a document that actually *SAYS* "transfer of copyright" - see 17 USC 204 (a) (Note that there's whole companies in Utah, with actual large legal teams, that seem unclear on the concept in 17 USC 204(a), so I'm not surprised that you're confused on this as well). --==_Exmh_1125523708_1457P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFDFiD8cC3lWbTT17ARAt3fAKDkZUY3L8Vhnmvb9XJkWC9Ce4Zl1ACgnPQe 9KahWeQu1srH3x3J4E2ra1A= =+qhT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1125523708_1457P--