Timeline for When are you violating a license like the GPL?
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| Feb 2, 2015 at 16:31 | comment | added | DougM | @Jules: I could agree to pay you $ to extend my code and release a GPL'd version. If you don't, I don't need to worry about the GPL, I can just sue you for breach of contract. Even if what you do with the code were fair use, and thus immune to the GPL's copyright claim. | |
| Feb 1, 2015 at 3:46 | comment | added | Jules | the fact that the GPL specifically states that you do not need to accept its terms in order to use software covered by it would seem to suggest that even in the situation where you had agreed to it beforehand you would still have some rights to use it in ways that are not explicitly permitted: the GPL only applies to distribution, not use. | |
| Feb 1, 2015 at 2:36 | comment | added | DougM | EXCEPT, of course, if you agreed to follow the GPL as a condition of getting the source code. Then you're in a similar boat as if you went to Microsoft and signed an NDA before uploading Win10 to pirate bay... | |
| Feb 1, 2015 at 2:33 | history | answered | DougM | CC BY-SA 3.0 |