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| DATE | 2006-05-24 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [rick@linuxmafia.com: Re: [Balug-talk] [rick@linuxmafia.com: Re: [Fwd: Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Its a sorry day for The?Linux?Journal]]]
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Ruben kindly passed along another posting from Richard:
> Our position is based on Eben Moglen's advice, but our previous
> lawyers gave similar advice in 1989 when NeXT wanted to distribute a
> not-free GCC front end and invite users to link it with GCC.
Yet, oddly, I'm quite familiar with the surrounding facts of NeXT's
ObjC extensions to GCC, and the legal issue was very clearly and
explicitly the creation and redistribution of a derivative work in
violation of FSF's copyright terms.
I've read some of Prof. Moglen's public writings on the broader
question, and, despite great respect and appreciation for him generally,
I couldn't help noticing that on that particular point he was long on
advocacy and extremely short on legal analysis. If my overall
understanding of the copyright framework for software is incorrect, I
will end up being very gratified to learn better -- not to mention
utterly astonished, and wanting a refund for thsoe classes in civil law.
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