Re: GPLv3 Position Statement

Pavel Machek
2006-09-29T12:56:27Z

Hi!

> > The reason a clause such as that will work is that people have no natural
> > right to redistribute Linux.
>
> Right. Any copyright license will basically say
>
> "You can distribute this assuming you do so-and-so"
>
> and a contract can actually extend on that and also limit you in other
> ways than just distribution, ie you can sat
>
> "You can buy this, but you cannot legally benchmark it"
>
> However, none of that actually extends your "derived work" in any way.

You are right, of course, but you can affect derived work by stuff
such as:

You may not copy Linux. As a special exception, you may
copy/distribute
Linux if you never copied Tolstoy before.

That would probably work.... in cases like Tivo anyway.
Pavel
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