[Fedora-legal-list] Forced copyright assignment

[Tom Callaway]

On 01/31/2011 11:23 AM, Matt McCutchen wrote:
> hey say that
> the copyright holder's actions never "violate" the GPL, at least with
> respect to distribution and modification.  This would appear consistent
> with my interpretation that the distribution and modification terms are
> conditions of the copyright license offered to licensees, and not
> licensor commitments.

Except that it is logically invalid. If the copyright holder is not
promising via the GPL to provide the source to those who are using the
Program under the terms, how are those parties expected to pass the
source along to anyone else?

~tom

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