On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 01:09:00PM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: > I'll have to retract my assertation that one has to accept the GPL > before downloading a work covered by it. In most jurisdictions that I > know of, people by default have the right to create copies of most > copyrighted works for their own personal use, even without permission > from the copyright holder. This is what gets the downloader and the > button-pusher off the hook, rather than a fiction that they are not > really creating copies.
Your semantic arguments are missing the point; the reason you can copy a file which has been released under the GPL without accepting the GPL is because you are explicitly granted that right by the GPL. --Adam
