On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 5:06 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Alan Cox wrote: >> >> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 04:14:24PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: >>>> >>>> not to distribute anything to you. I'm entitled to exclude aol.com from >>>> my >>>> download site. >>>> >>>> So its an additional service with conditions. >>> >>> Yes, conditions that are an additional restriction of what I can do with >>> a GPL-covered work. >> >> Its an additional service. > > And taking it away or making it conditional based on giving up your GPL > right is a restriction. > >> It doesn't change your GPL rights. If you can't grasp >> that basic concept then I think you have a problem. > > No, I can't grasp the concept that a restriction that involves a penalty is > not a restriction. > And as long you keep insisting that your definition of how the law is versus how the legal system sees it.. I don't see this changing. You might as well say the GPL isn't valid because it doesn't use ALL CAPITAL LETTERS IN ALL PARTS or some other nutter idea. -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
