Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

On Mon 2007-09-03 04:58:58, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> David Schwartz wrote:
> >Either license can grant you the right to distribute 
> >it, but how you get the
> >rights to distribute has *NO* effect on the recipient. 
> >They receive a lawful
> >copy and any rights the original author grants them 
> >under a license from
> >that original author. You have no power to grant or 
> >modify rights to the
> >original work.
> 
> Secondary parties have the power to grant or modify 
> rights, if delegated to them by the original author.
> 
> Relicensing and transfer of rights happens all the time. 
> How do you think most music gets into consumer hands?

License is only a promise not to sue. Only original author is permitted to
sue in BSD/GPL case. David seems right here.

If Linus releases GPL/BSD program, you choose GPL and distribute it to
me, and I put it into proprietary evil app, I am _ok_.

You can't sue me, because you are not copyright holder.

Linus can't sue me, because he BSD licensed it.

=> I'm fine. Yep, copyright law is strange, and you may be right
outside U.S.
							Pavel
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