On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 21:25:52 -0400 Jeff Licquia wrote: > Francesco Poli wrote: > > Am I failing to comply with the license? > > The only person who could say for sure would be a judge.
Obviously, but we are trying to understand the effects of license terms, hence we have to try and understand what a judge would decide... > > But, in general, it's worth noting that the law is not as robotic as > this. We could imagine all kinds of scenarios that could be construed > as violations of all kinds of licenses. Does the GPL prevent you from > moving if you've made a written offer and can't have your mail forwarded > for the full three years? I think you chose the wrong example: the written offer possibility (clause 3b in GPLv2, clause 6b in GPLv3) is a non-free path through the GPL. In other words, if making the written offer were the *only* way to distribute GPL'd object code, the GPL would *not* meet the DFSG. This is my own opinion, but it seems to be shared by other debian-legal regulars: see, for instance http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/07/msg00595.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/07/msg00600.html As usual: IANAL, TINLA, IANADD, TINASOTODP. -- http://frx.netsons.org/doc/index.html#nanodocs The nano-document series is here! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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