From: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com>
To: "Andre Hedrick" <andre@linux-ide.org>
Cc: <ahorn@deorth.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: Dell vs. GPL
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 01:44:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <MDEHLPKNGKAHNMBLJOLKKEHPEAAA.davids@webmaster.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10306300129070.5840-100000@master.linux-ide.org>
> Do not confuse contract and right to use license, they are legally
> different. There is no contract law in GPL.
The terms 'contract' and 'license' are interchangeable. The GPL is a
contract that gives you a right to use certain copryighted works in a way
you wouldn't otherwise have in exchange for certain compensation. The terms
of the license act like a contract and can even grant rights not recognized
under copyright law itself. See, for example, Bowers v. Baystate and ProCD
Inc v. Zeidenberg.
Note that things may be very different outside the U.S.
DS
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-30 8:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 81+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-28 5:51 Fluke
2003-06-28 6:12 ` Joshua Penix
2003-06-28 15:05 ` Doug McNaught
2003-06-28 15:12 ` Svein Ove Aas
2003-06-28 15:18 ` Doug McNaught
2003-06-28 15:49 ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-06-29 4:22 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-06-29 10:33 ` Alan Cox
2003-06-30 4:07 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-06-30 6:39 ` Miles Bader
2003-06-30 6:56 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-06-30 9:45 ` Miles Bader
2003-07-09 23:28 ` Thomas Dodd
2003-07-10 2:48 ` Miles Bader
2003-07-10 14:41 ` Thomas Dodd
2003-07-10 15:05 ` Gene Heskett
2003-07-10 15:20 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-07-10 15:52 ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2003-07-10 19:04 ` Thomas Dodd
2003-07-10 19:22 ` OT: " Dana Lacoste
2003-06-30 15:49 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-06-30 16:54 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-06-30 17:50 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-06-30 18:28 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-06-30 20:43 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-06-30 20:44 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-06-30 21:25 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-06-30 21:34 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-01 5:03 ` vlad
2003-07-01 5:27 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-01 12:50 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2003-06-30 20:55 ` Trever L. Adams
2003-06-30 20:44 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2003-06-30 20:48 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-01 5:53 ` Anders Karlsson
2003-07-01 6:56 ` jw schultz
2003-07-01 7:21 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-01 15:38 ` Trever L. Adams
2003-07-01 13:17 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2003-07-01 15:36 ` vlad
2003-07-01 16:05 ` Scott Robert Ladd
2003-07-01 16:45 ` Trever L. Adams
2003-07-01 17:45 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-09 23:24 ` Thomas Dodd
2003-07-01 12:46 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2003-06-30 17:22 ` Alan Cox
2003-06-30 17:37 ` Andre Hedrick
[not found] ` <3BZo.5iM.27@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-06-29 14:04 ` Florian Weimer
2003-06-28 18:54 ` Alan Cox
2003-06-29 17:47 ` Fluke
2003-06-29 17:48 ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-06-29 4:16 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-06-29 11:49 ` Fluke
2003-06-29 21:45 ` David Schwartz
2003-06-30 4:01 ` ahorn
2003-06-30 4:10 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-06-30 6:59 ` ahorn
2003-06-30 8:29 ` David Schwartz
2003-06-30 8:29 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-06-30 8:44 ` David Schwartz [this message]
2003-06-30 5:59 ` David Schwartz
2003-06-30 6:57 ` ahorn
2003-06-30 7:39 ` Anders Karlsson
2003-06-30 8:24 ` David Schwartz
2003-06-30 9:02 ` root
2003-06-30 9:17 ` David Schwartz
2003-06-30 15:57 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-06-30 4:23 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-07-14 20:35 ` Fluke
2003-06-29 14:24 Ricardo Galli
2003-06-29 19:50 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-06-29 19:58 ` Ricardo Galli
2003-06-29 20:21 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-06-29 20:42 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-06-29 20:57 ` Russell King
2003-06-29 21:21 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-06-30 23:14 ` David Weinehall
2003-06-29 20:02 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2003-06-29 20:54 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.44.0307020931260.1400-100000@humbolt.us.dell.com>
2003-07-02 16:25 ` Andre Hedrick
[not found] <20030715191651.GA6946@delft.aura.cs.cmu.edu>
2003-07-17 3:15 ` Fluke
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