GPL compliance

Mario Vukelic mario.vukelic at dantian.org
Sat Jul 1 21:08:32 UTC 2006


On Sat, 2006-07-01 at 22:07 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> Is that actually true? I can't believe that

Of course. Or rather, by law, the program can only be distributed by the
copyright holder. As a licensee you have no distribution rights at all.
By putting the program under a free license, the copyright holder allows
you additional rights. That's why if you as a redistributor to not
accept the terms of the license, you fall back to the plain copyright as
defined by law, which is you have no distribution rights at all.





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