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The default in copyright is that you have no rights to a copyrightable work. The GPL grants you some right under certain conditions. If the conditions fail to b
by jononor 9y ago
The default in copyright is that you have no rights to a copyrightable work. The GPL grants you some right under certain conditions. If the conditions fail to be met, your granted rights are revoked.
As the creators of the GPL license the FSFs widely published opinion is likely to matter to judges evaluating a case. But in the end noone knows outcomes until would come to pass. So seek to minimize legal risks.
- jahewson 9y agoYour comment is literally FUD. Copyright law gives the authors of the GPL'd work exactly no rights over your independent work. Distributing a GPL'd binary along side other works cannot have any impact on those other works. (Otherwise every Linux distribution would be in violation). The GPL is built on top of existing copyright laws which simply don't provide that kind of power. So there is no risk because there's no conceivable legal mechanism in copyright law which behaves like you claim.
- jononor 9y agoI meant rights to the GPLed software/library in use. Not to independent works merely aggregated on the same medium.
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