Re: Re: Problems with GPL and Copyright & the new Law Center

From: Joseph Pietro Riolo <riolo[_at_]voicenet.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 14:10:00 -0500

On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Lawrence Rosen <lrosen[_at_]rosenlaw.com> wrote: 

>

> Anyone who builds a commercial product based upon GPL-licensed code could,
> indeed, seek out only the non-copyrightable portions of that code and use
> only those. That stuff is in the public domain and so it is even freer than
> free software. But how much easier and less risky it can be to just
> cooperate with the GPL bargain and honor its reciprocity conditions.

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin

Joseph Pietro Riolo
<riolo[_at_]voicenet.com>

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Public domain notice: I put all of my expressions in this post in the public domain. Received on Fri Feb 11 2005 - 00:10:00 GMT

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