Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 13 Sep 2003 19:57:20 -0600 | From | Erik Andersen <> | Subject | Re: People, not GPL [was: Re: Driver Model] |
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On Fri Sep 12, 2003 at 04:58:03PM -0400, Timothy Miller wrote: > > > David Schwartz wrote: > > > However, some people seem to be arguing that the GPL_ONLY symbols > > are in > >fact a license enforcement technique. If that's true, then when they > >distribute their code, they are putting additional restrictions not in the > >GPL on it. That is a GPL violation. > > Agreed. GPL_ONLY is not a license restriction. It is a technical issue.
I'll go even farther, and say that one might call the GPL_ONLY symbols an "effective technological measure" that "effectively controls access to a work" and "effectively protects a right of a copyright owner ... in the ordinary course of its operation....". Bypassing GPL_ONLY symbols, as recently advocated by David Schwartz and Andre Hedrick, could be considered circumvention of an effective technological measure. Remember Dmitry Sklyarov,
-Erik
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