Re: Open Software License v2.1
* Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk> [040915 19:31]:
> > An elementary point of Free Software is to protect the rights of the
> > users, not excluding "bad" ones. (Or will GPL3 have a section
> > termination the licence if you breach any FSF copyright?)
>
> RMS is quoted as saying "Misusing a GPL-covered program permanently
> forfeits the right to distribute the code at all", which implies that
> the GPL doesn't protect the rights of people who have violated it in the
> past.
The GPL still protects the rights of those, only not to this specific
code. You still have rights to use any other GPLed code, even from the
same author.
Hochachtungsvoll,
Bernhard R. Link
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