Scripsit Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 10:04:23PM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote:
> > Oh. In that case I would suppose that "contributory infringement" > > logically requires that somebody actually infringes on the copyright. > > Who would that be in this case? > The idea is that if lots of people engage in minor copyright violations I don't see any minor or major copyright violations in this scenario: 1) F produces a library L and releases it under the GPL 2) A produces a program P that links to L. 3) A distributes the source code for P (but not for L) til B 4) B gets L from F and compiles and uses P. As far as I understand you RMS's claim would be that A is somehow violating the GPL even though he never copies the library it applies to. I cannot see how "contributory infringement" applies here, because nobody in the story copies anything they are not explicitly allowed to copy. In fact, nobody copies anything they didn't write themselves! -- Henning Makholm "Check the sprog."
