From: Michael Poole <mdpoole@troilus.org>
To: Emmanuel Fleury <fleury@cs.aau.dk>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
Linux Kernel ML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: freebox possible GPL violation
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 08:45:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <873bngcetr.fsf@sanosuke.troilus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4343C73E.9000507@cs.aau.dk> (Emmanuel Fleury's message of "Wed, 05 Oct 2005 14:29:50 +0200")
Emmanuel Fleury writes:
> First, it is very arguable to say that they are "distributing" the
> software as it does not comes with the FreeBox but is automatically
> downloaded at each boot through the DSLAM network (which the user is not
> supposed to know about).
In the US, copyright law's definitive use of "distribution" says that
"to distribute copies or phonorecords of the copyrighted work to the
public by sale or other stranfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or
lending" is a right reserved to the copyright owner. Saying "it's
only a loan" or "it's only temporary" does not relieve any obligation
under the GPL. I would imagine that law across the EU is similar.
Michael Poole
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-05 12:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-05 11:13 freebox possible GPL violation Pierre Michon
2005-10-05 11:22 ` Emmanuel Fleury
2005-10-05 11:27 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-10-05 11:37 ` Emmanuel Fleury
2005-10-05 11:59 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-10-05 12:02 ` Emmanuel Fleury
2005-10-05 12:07 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-10-05 12:29 ` Emmanuel Fleury
2005-10-05 12:45 ` Michael Poole [this message]
2005-10-05 17:11 ` Alexandre Oliva
2005-10-06 0:07 ` Helge Hafting
2005-10-06 0:49 ` David Lang
2005-10-06 1:12 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2005-10-06 2:25 ` David Lang
2005-10-06 9:20 ` Helge Hafting
2005-10-06 9:51 ` Emmanuel Fleury
2005-10-06 9:53 ` Emmanuel Fleury
2005-10-06 11:39 ` Helge Hafting
2005-10-06 13:05 ` Emmanuel Fleury
2005-10-06 13:42 ` Michael Poole
2005-10-06 14:19 ` Helge Hafting
2005-10-06 20:15 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2005-10-11 2:27 ` David Schwartz
2005-10-11 10:48 ` Graham Murray
2005-10-05 12:15 ` Vincent Hanquez
2005-10-05 11:45 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-10-05 11:59 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-10-05 11:50 ` Emmanuel Fleury
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-10-06 23:26 Pierre Michon
2005-10-06 12:01 Pierre Michon
2005-10-06 13:06 ` Emmanuel Fleury
2005-10-06 13:40 ` Michael Poole
2005-10-06 14:48 ` Matan Peled
2005-10-05 17:57 Pierre Michon
2005-10-05 16:06 Pierre Michon
2005-10-05 16:47 ` Emmanuel Fleury
2005-10-05 15:18 Pierre Michon
2005-10-05 15:49 ` Vincent Hanquez
2005-10-05 15:12 Pierre Michon
2005-10-05 15:08 Pierre Michon
2005-10-05 10:08 Pierre Michon
2005-10-05 10:18 ` Emmanuel Fleury
2005-10-05 8:47 Pierre Michon
2005-10-05 9:42 ` Helge Hafting
2005-10-15 9:40 ` Loic Dachary
2005-10-19 17:58 ` Pierre Michon
2005-10-20 15:29 ` Loic Dachary
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