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Re: OSD && DFSG - different purposes - constructive suggestion!



On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 12:15:13PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> writes:
> > Consider Frank the lawyer who takes some nice source code from a GPLed
> > project, and adds some code his friend was telling him under NDA. He
> > puts it up on the web, and suddenly gets demands for source code from
> > the original author. What does he do, violate the NDA, or the copyright
> > license??? What does he do?!?
> The GPL doesn't have such a rule.  

He puts the program up on the web. As in http://www.frankcorp.com/foo.exe.
People then download it. They then demand the source.

Yeesh.

Cheers,
aj

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