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Re: Distributing GPL software.



For once I agree with Alexander - you've read the preamble, not the
license, and usually the preamble does not have any legal force.

Andrew

On 1/18/06, Alexander Terekhov <alexander.terekhov@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/17/06, Samuel E RIFFLE <sRiffle@cox.net> wrote:
> [...]
> > I am not authorized to offer a legal opinion, but the above is a "common
> > sense", practitioner oriented reading of the terms of the GPL.
>
> Except that you were mostly reading the manifesto part of the GPL
> which doesn't belong to T&C operative for that license agreement
> (let's assume acceptance arguendo) and is as irrelevant as another
> part ("#SEC4" link you seem to like so much) that follows the T&C.
>
> regards,
> alexander.
>
>


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