** Sean Kellogg :: > On Thursday 08 September 2005 11:38 am, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > There's an awful lot of lawyers and law professors who think > > that the GPL works. Go start by arguing with them. > > Based on my readings of law review articles and the common legal > arguments surrounding the GPL, the reason it works is because the > GPL is a contract. The linking clause is a contractual term that > you must agree to in order to receive a copyright license. Pretty > standard forbearance.
But... there is _no_ linking clause in the GPL (*). Unless you are telling me that the "How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs" is a binding part of the contract, which I will also dispute, because the mentioned title is immediately after a big, all-caps "END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS" in the GPL. > > I know of no legal professional, outside of the FSF, who believes > the GPL stands up as a pure copyright license. Ditto. (*) see: $ grep -n -i -C link gpl.txt 336-This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into 337-proprietary programs. If your program is a subroutine library, you may 338:consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the 339-library. If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Library General 340-Public License instead of this License. $ grep -n -i -C how.to.apply.these gpl.txt 280- END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS 281- 282: How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs 283- 284- If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest -- HTH, Massa -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
