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Re: GPL: Does a conveyor's violation result in rights to users?


From: Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Subject: Re: GPL: Does a conveyor's violation result in rights to users?
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 19:48:06 +0100

Ter, 2007-03-27 às 14:30 +0200, Alexander Terekhov escreveu:
> Ciaran O'Riordan wrote:
> > 
> > Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@web.de> writes:
> > > As if "first sale" ("copyright exhaustion" in EU
> > > speak) were nonexistent
> > 
> > Well, I don't know the answer to that, and I'm not going to check with a
> > lawyer right now, but if there was such a loophole in the GPL, wouldn't
> > someone have exploited it by now?
> 
> Oh dear, I hereby offer you a signed (by me) CD full of binary-only 
> (no sources) GPL'd stuff (C) FSF under draconian contract imposing 
> forbearance from exercising rights granted under GPL via a kind of 
> shrink-wrap T&C between you an me with contractual damages only 
> twice the price. For only EURO 50. Deal? (If yes, pls pay-pal to 
> terekhov at yahoo dot com and allow a week or so for delivery.)

If you really want to make your point, why don't you put that CD on-line
for free? It's the same copyright infringement weather you pay 50 EUR or
0 EUR, but I guess you're like those spam emails: only a fool would go
for your *generous* offer :)

RUi

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+ Whatever you do will be insignificant,
| but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi
+ So let's do it...?

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