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QuestionQuestionPosted Feb 17, 2004 19:27 UTC (Tue) by Zelatrix (guest, #5163)In reply to: Question by ccyoung Parent article: Allnet GmbH resolves iptables GPL violation Yes. The GPL is a licence to reproduce a copyrighted work. Without accepting the GPL, Allnet didn't have the right to make multiple copies of the iptables code. You can't run off a few hundred copies of a copyrighted work and distribute them, whether you're selling or leasing. ObIANAL
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Question Posted Feb 17, 2004 20:33 UTC (Tue) by Duncan (guest, #6647) [Link] [loose quoting.]>> If the equipment were leased, not sold, would it violate the GPL? > Yes.. You can't run off copies and distribute them. OTOH, the GPL DOES allow for internal distribution within a company, without publishing source or any mods used in the internal build. Leased equipment still belongs to the company and may be held to be internal distribution and thus exempt. IANAL, but that's getting close enough to borderline that I'd be a bit doubtful. It'd be interesting to see Professor M's (sorry, won't attempt to spell it from memory, but the FSF's lawyer dude..) take on that specific question, and he might have addressed it somewhere, but I haven't seen it. Even then, I believe it'd take a series of court verdicts to establish and confirm precedent and know for sure. Duncan
Question Posted Feb 17, 2004 23:56 UTC (Tue) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523) [Link] You cannot lease or rent a piece of code without permision from thecopyright holder. The GPL does not allow leasing or renting code. The only authorisation is about distributing it. So they have no other options than _giving_ the software as part of the leasing, and then they are bound by the source code obligation toward the recipient.
Question Posted Feb 18, 2004 20:44 UTC (Wed) by remijnj (subscriber, #5838) [Link] It'd be interesting to see Professor M's (sorry, won't attempt to spell it from memory, but the FSF's lawyer dude..)That would be Eben Moglen.
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