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Hi, |
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On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 04:37:25 +0100 |
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Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> http://dansguardian.org/?page=copyright2 |
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> I read that as "your friend can download it for non-commercial use & |
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> then distribute it to you for free under the GPL for you to use for |
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> commercial purposes". |
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I don't agree. In my opinion the legal status of this document is that |
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it carries two licences but no option to freely chose between them if |
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you're using it commercially. It's GPLed only in a non-commercial |
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context. You'd need a lawyer (most probably this isn't enough, you'd |
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need a court and a judge's decision instead) to exactly analyze the |
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clause and it's problematic "upon downloading" clause. It says "GPL"ed |
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(and even has some mentioning of RMS) but it isn't clearly GPL, though. |
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In the mentioned way to circumvent the license, there's the question if |
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- redistributing to another (commercial) party is "relicencing" (only |
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the author - or holder of copyright in other countries' laws - can do |
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this) |
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- the "GPL" really is a GPL here. |
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-hwh |
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