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Re: Circumventing the GPL
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Circumventing the GPL |
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Sat, 26 Jul 2008 09:50:25 +0200 |
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Tim Smith <reply_in_group@mouse-potato.com> writes:
> In article <858wvp7jpc.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
> wrote:
>> >> You can claim either agreement or non-agreement with the conditions.
>> >> Your choice. In the latter case, you had no permission to copy in the
>> >> first place.
>> >
>> > Ah, but note that in my hypothetical, when I made the copies, I had no
>> > intention of distributing them. I was making them for my own use, and
>> > did use all of them. Thus, at the time they were made, they were
>> > "lawfully made".
>>
>> If I let go of a brick above your head with the firm intention to catch
>> it again, and then I decide otherwise, that's fine? Because there is no
>> duty for people to catch bricks?
>
> Poor analogy. Letting go of a brick above my head, with the intention
> to catch it (and even if you in fact did catch it, so I come to no
> harm), would still be assault.
Then every driver who puts his foot on the accelerator is assaulting a
lot of people since it requires him to take the foot off again (or even
brake!), an active action, to stop the car.
>> > Can that later act retroactively change the creation of the copies
>> > from lawful to unlawful?
>>
>> You stop heeding your part of the deal and you stop having your
>> rights. Simple as that.
>
> But if the copy was lawful, I don't *need* any GPL rights in order to
> distribute it, so the question remains: is whether or not a copy is
> lawfully made determined at the time the copy is made, or can it
> depend on later events?
It can be _decided_ by later events. Like loading a gun may or may not
be preparation to murder. Further actions decide what it has been.
Sort of a quantum dilemma. It is like the "I have never loved you"
realization in a relationship. Once you realize it, it has always been
that way.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
- Re: Circumventing the GPL, (continued)
- Re: Circumventing the GPL, Alexander Terekhov, 2008/07/25
- Re: Circumventing the GPL, David Kastrup, 2008/07/25
- Re: Circumventing the GPL, Alexander Terekhov, 2008/07/25
- Re: Circumventing the GPL, David Kastrup, 2008/07/25
- Re: Circumventing the GPL, Alexander Terekhov, 2008/07/25
- Re: Circumventing the GPL, David Kastrup, 2008/07/25
- Re: Circumventing the GPL, Alexander Terekhov, 2008/07/25
- Re: Circumventing the GPL, Tim Smith, 2008/07/25
- Re: Circumventing the GPL, David Kastrup, 2008/07/25
- Re: Circumventing the GPL, Tim Smith, 2008/07/25
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