Re: [PROPOSAL] Full text of GPL must be included
On 30 Nov 2000, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> John Galt <galt@inconnu.isu.edu> writes:
>
> > By law, what is not explicitly permitted is prohibited. You are permitted
> > ONLY to make verbatim copies, you are not allowed to use it as a basis for
> > your own license because there is no explicit permission for it. In fact
> > there is an explicit denial of the right to make any change at all to
> > it, one that is not delimited by further discussion, so is therefore
> > absolute by law.
>
> Copyright law does not extend so far; contracts in general are not
> copyrightable.
Please notice that what I posted was the copyright notice of the GPL. Are
you saying that the header of the GPL is invalid? Where a part of a
statement is proven wrong, the rest must be suspect, so why are we having
this discussion if the GPL itself may be invalid?
> Thomas
>
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