Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: GPL only modules | From | Sanjoy Mahajan <> | Date | 19 Dec 2006 08:00:00 +0000 |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > That said, I think they are still pushing the "you don't have any > rights unless we give you additional rights explicitly" angle a bit > too hard.
From section 2 (GPLv3, draft 2):
This License acknowledges your rights of "fair use" or other equivalent, as provided by copyright law.
By choosing 'acknowledges' as the verb, the licensee says explicitly that fair-use rights are already yours, not that they are being given to you.
-Sanjoy
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