Re: Rsync over ssh (pulling from Cygwin to Linux) stalls..

[mwoehlke <mwoehlke@tibco.com>]

Dave Korn wrote:
> On 14 August 2006 18:41, mwoehlke wrote:
> 
>> Dave Korn wrote:
>>> On 14 August 2006 17:04, mwoehlke wrote:
> 
>>>> My understanding is that if you place it in Public Domain, then anyone
>>>> can do anything with it and no one can stop this. IOW RedHat would be
>>>> safe because no one can prevent them from using Public Domain material
>>>> in any manner or fashion.
>>>   That's not what "safe" means.  If the program is in the public domain,
>>> rather than RH having the copyright assigned to them, then anyone could
>>> take it, make a proprietary version and distribute it without the sources,
>>> and RH would not be in a legal position to enforce the GPL on it because
>>> they would not be the copyright holder.
>> And the problem with this would be what, exactly? "Safe" in that no one
>> can take legal action against RH because of their use of it.
> 
>   No, redhat is "safe" in /that/ sense automatically, because the code is GPLd
> and so they and everyone else in the world can do what they like with it, and
> nobody can stop them.  The meaning of "safe" for redhat would be "safe from
> anyone stealing it for proprietary use", because the code would not be safe
> against that unless someone who can afford lawyers - such as RH - holds the
> copyright.

...I think this is what Daryl is taking issue with: you are essentially 
*forcing* GPL onto someone. Not everyone agrees with that philosophy (in 
my case, it depends on my mood :-)).

-- 
Matthew
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