Re: GPL and linking
On 5/11/05, Michael K. Edwards <m.k.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/11/05, Raul Miller <moth.debian@gmail.com> wrote:
> > The law as written says that you do not have permission to copy
> > except as granted by a license. Thus the GPL's license grant
> > is not only applicable, it's the issue which is most likely to be
> > contested in such a case.
>
> Except for all the other times that you have permission to copy, as
> defined in the applicable statute and case law. Which is not the
> point here anyway; the point is that it's an offer of contract, not a
> statute and not some magical creature of copyright law, and that means
> you are analyzing it from utterly the wrong angle and cannot possibly
> arrive at correct legal conclusions. (IANAL, TINLA.)
At no point did I assume that the GPL was a statute, nor a
magical creature.
In other words, you're begging the question. (And arguing a
straw man.)
--
Raul
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