On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 5:06 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Alan Cox wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 04:14:24PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
>>>
>>> not to distribute anything to you. I'm entitled to exclude
aol.com from
>>> my
>>> download site.
>>>
>>> So its an additional service with conditions.
>>
>> Yes, conditions that are an additional restriction of what I can do with
>> a GPL-covered work.
>
> Its an additional service.
And taking it away or making it conditional based on giving up your GPL
right is a restriction.
> It doesn't change your GPL rights. If you can't grasp
> that basic concept then I think you have a problem.
No, I can't grasp the concept that a restriction that involves a penalty is
not a restriction.
And as long you keep insisting that your definition of how the law is
versus how the legal system sees it.. I don't see this changing. You
might as well say the GPL isn't valid because it doesn't use ALL
CAPITAL LETTERS IN ALL PARTS or some other nutter idea.
--
Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed
in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"