From: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com>
To: "Jp@Enix. Org" <jp@enix.org>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: Possible GPL infringement in Broadcom-based routers
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 11:59:23 -0800
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> The GPL is a grant of permission.  So, if you have an activity
> that is restricted by copyright, you have to find something in the GPL
> that gives you permission.  It's not just me saying that.  A
> representative
> from the FSF explained that to room of ~50 lawyers and ~50 lay people
> at a seminar that I went to on it.

	If that were true, I could poem up on a billboard and sue anyone who read
it. The FSF is, of course, free to take any position it wants to. As I
understand the law, if you want to restrict use, you must restrict access.
Give free access, you give free use.

	DS


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