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Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record
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thufir |
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Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record |
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Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:03:50 GMT |
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On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:49:13 +0000, Rahul Dhesi wrote:
> thufir <hawat.thufir@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>To my understanding, the buyer does have the right, under the GPL, to
>>the source. After, the GPL is targeted, you could say, at buyers to
>>protect copyright owners.
>
>>If no buyer has rights to the source, then that would make the GPL
>>pointless, which, I suppose is your argument?
>
> "Rights to the source" is not a useful phrase, as it does not
> distinguish between the right to ask for the source (which the buyer
> has), the right to redistribute the source once the source is available
> (which the buyer has), and the right to enforce the seller's obligation
> to provide the source (which the copyright owner has but the buyer does
> not).
The buyer can ask for the source but, ultimately, has now way of
enforcing anybody to produce it? Seems pointless.
-Thufir
- Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record, (continued)
- Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record, thufir, 2008/07/22
- Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record, Rahul Dhesi, 2008/07/22
- Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record, JEDIDIAH, 2008/07/22
- Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record, Rahul Dhesi, 2008/07/22
- Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record, JEDIDIAH, 2008/07/22
- Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record, David Kastrup, 2008/07/23
- Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record, thufir, 2008/07/23
- Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record, David Kastrup, 2008/07/23
- Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record, thufir, 2008/07/23
- Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record, Rahul Dhesi, 2008/07/23
- Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record,
thufir <=
- Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record, Tim Smith, 2008/07/24
- Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record, Hyman Rosen, 2008/07/24
- Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record, David Kastrup, 2008/07/24
- Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record, Rahul Dhesi, 2008/07/24
- Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record, thufir, 2008/07/23
- Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record, Rjack, 2008/07/23
- Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record, Mark Kent, 2008/07/24
- Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record, Hyman Rosen, 2008/07/22
- Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record, rjack, 2008/07/22
- Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record, Hyman Rosen, 2008/07/22