Re: Open Software License v2.1
Bernhard R. Link <blink@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> wrote:
> * Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk> [040915 19:31]:
>> 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.
So you'd have no objection to licenses which terminate the copyright
license to that specific bit of code in the event of patent action? (The
MPL is an example of one of these)
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Matthew Garrett | mjg59-chiark.mail.debian.legal@srcf.ucam.org
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