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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