Re: [LAU] Is LS licensed? (was: [LAA] [ANN] gigedit 0.1.0)

From: Forest Bond <forest@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Thu Oct 18 2007 - 20:11:28 EEST

Hi,

On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 10:15:59PM +0100, Keith Sharp wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 22:40 +0200, Lars Luthman wrote:
> > A copyright licence is a licence, not a contract. It can only grant
> > additional rights to the ones you are already given under your
> > copyright
> > law, not remove any of them. In virtually every country the copyright
> > holder can do whatever he or she wants with his or her own work, and
> > releasing it under a licence that grants additional rights to others
> > can
> > never change that.
>
> In most countries (certainly the UK) a non-copyright holder starts from
> a position of zero rights. The only way I can access a copyright item
> is by a licence from the copyright holder that grants me rights. In the
> case of LS/libgig I am being granted two sets of (possibly) incompatible
> rights by two different licences from the same copyright holder.

This is not true. You have fair use rights.

> I am being licenced use of LS under the terms of the GPL V2 + a
> restriction on redistribution as a commercial product. I am also being
> licenced the use of libgig under a pure GPL V2 licence. The problem is
> that the pure GPL V2 libgig "virally infects" LS and the result is a
> (possible) breach of the terms of the GPL V2, and the GPL V2 states that
> if you breach the licence all rights granted under it are withdrawn. So
> at this point I have no licence to use libgig and I am in breach of
> copyright.

Only if you distribute binaries. Compiling, linking, and using the software on
your end is fair use.

-Forest

-- 
Forest Bond
http://www.alittletooquiet.net

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