Re: Linux and GPLv2

[Måns Rullgård <mru@inprovide.com>]

Arnoud Engelfriet <galactus@stack.nl> writes:

> M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
>> Arnoud Engelfriet <galactus@stack.nl> writes:
>> > I've heard people speculate that this could be called a
>> > "public performance" of the work, like singing a song in front
>> > of an audience. And the right of public performance is in
>> > copyright law.
>> 
>> I don't think this a very good analogy.  This is like saying that by
>> playing the guitar with an audience, I am publicly performing the book
>> I used when I learned how to play.
>
> You're publicly performing the work on the sheet music in front 
> of you. So under this hypothetical GPLv3, you have to hand out 
> copies of the sheet music. At least that was my analogy.

The music sheets would correspond to the web pages, not the web server
software.

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Måns Rullgård
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