Re: Open Software License v2.1

[Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com>]

Ken Arromdee wrote:

> On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>> > 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?)
>> 
>> 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.
> 
> I know that something like this is in the GPL, but I wonder how he
> reconciles it with this:
> 
> # Each time you redistribute the Program (or any work based on the
> # Program), the recipient automatically receives a license from the
> # original licensor to copy, distribute or modify the Program subject to
> # these terms and conditions.
> 
> That suggests that although violating the GPL causes the license on the
> copy you have to be revoked, when someone distributes another copy to you,
> you gain another license for the new copy.

Perhaps he assumes that, if you were caught violating the license, nobody
will distribute another copy to you?  ;-)

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