GPL does not ask you to give up rights.
GPL does not ask you to give up rights.
Posted Mar 2, 2011 12:41 UTC (Wed) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630)In reply to: GPL does not ask you to give up rights. by jthill
Parent article: Red Hat's "obfuscated" kernel source
So we agree, then, on the substance: the GPL asks you to give up rights
No, we do not. My original phrasing was wrong. Let me spell it out: The GPL only grants you rights. It does not ask you to give up any rights because in the absence of the GPL, you have no rights anyway.
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