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Re: GPL-licensed packages with depend-chain to OpenSSL



On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 06:50:28PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 03:38:19PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > Huh?  There is no copyright infringement here because *the GPL
> > explicitly allows this form of distribution*.

> I was talking about the relationship of copyright law to some distribution
> mechanics.

> The GPL allows distribution under certain circumstances, but those
> allowances are mostly tangential to the mechanisms I was talking about.

> I certainly don't see the GPL talking about the issue of shipping some
> bits of a program on one day through distributor A and other bits of the
> program on another day through distributor B.

If distributor A is distributing an operating system, it certainly does.

-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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