From: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@gotplt.org>
To: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Seeking input from developers: glibc copyright assignment policy.
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2021 18:18:55 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51a5326b-e870-1202-3dde-970f77a16471@gotplt.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87im229laa.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com>
On 6/25/21 6:03 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Siddhesh Poyarekar:
>
>> On 6/25/21 5:44 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
>>> “Use” is a technical term for exploiting rights under copyright. Such
>>> rights include making copies and distributing them.
>>
>> Interesting, so does that also give rights to re-license for
>> distribution? I was convinced otherwise.
>
> I have no idea. I don't even know if the FSF intends to grant a
> sublicense. U.S. courts apparently have developed the concept of an
> implied sublicense, but it's unclear whether the preconditions for that
> have been met in our case.
The thing is, if I have an implied, unlimited right to distribute then I
have the right to dictate the terms of the distribution. That does not
sound correct.
I'm unable to find a reference that says that 'use' implies
distribution. The copyright law gives exclusive distribution rights to
the copyright holder, so I would have thought that the distribution
aspect ought to be made explicit.
In fact, the FSF agreement explicitly mentions "use, license and
distribute" in the context of rights that the FSF gains from the
assignment, among other things.
Siddhesh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-25 12:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 86+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-23 1:04 Bruno Haible
2021-06-23 3:19 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2021-06-24 19:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-25 2:23 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2021-06-25 6:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-25 6:47 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2021-06-25 7:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-25 8:57 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2021-06-25 9:43 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2021-06-25 11:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-25 12:07 ` Florian Weimer
2021-06-25 12:11 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2021-06-25 12:14 ` Florian Weimer
2021-06-25 12:25 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2021-06-25 12:33 ` Florian Weimer
2021-06-25 12:48 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar [this message]
2021-06-25 13:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-25 14:06 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2021-06-26 6:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-28 4:11 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2021-06-28 12:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-28 13:06 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2021-06-28 14:04 ` Phil Blundell
2021-06-28 14:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-25 11:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-25 12:24 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2021-06-25 7:24 ` Florian Weimer
2021-06-25 7:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-25 8:23 ` Florian Weimer
2021-06-25 11:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-25 6:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-07-02 22:23 Craig Topham
2021-07-05 14:59 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2021-07-05 16:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-05 18:52 ` Paul Eggert
2021-06-14 18:52 Carlos O'Donell
2021-06-14 19:08 ` Rich Felker
2021-06-14 19:25 ` Khem Raj
2021-06-14 20:05 ` Florian Weimer
2021-06-14 20:22 ` Matt Turner
2021-06-15 20:28 ` Carlos O'Donell
2021-06-14 21:16 ` Paul Eggert
2021-06-14 20:18 ` Matt Turner
2021-06-14 20:22 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2021-06-15 2:48 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2021-06-15 3:18 ` DJ Delorie
2021-06-15 17:41 ` Paul Eggert
2021-06-15 18:43 ` DJ Delorie
2021-06-15 19:05 ` Paul Eggert
2021-06-15 19:12 ` DJ Delorie
2021-06-15 19:35 ` Paul Eggert
2021-06-15 19:42 ` DJ Delorie
2021-06-15 20:08 ` Carlos O'Donell
2021-07-02 22:33 ` Carlos O'Donell
2021-07-03 1:59 ` Paul Eggert
2021-07-04 0:40 ` Paul Eggert
2021-07-04 11:55 ` Florian Weimer
2021-07-04 18:32 ` Paul Eggert
2021-07-04 23:25 ` Bradley M. Kuhn
2021-07-05 15:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-06 18:02 ` Bradley M. Kuhn
2021-07-05 5:28 ` Carlos O'Donell
2021-07-05 20:21 ` Paul Eggert
2021-07-06 18:05 ` Bradley M. Kuhn
2021-07-06 19:42 ` Paul Eggert
[not found] ` <YOTTfm12jac/NYe5@ebb.org>
2021-07-07 8:51 ` Florian Weimer
2021-07-07 15:01 ` Joseph Myers
2021-07-05 5:00 ` Carlos O'Donell
2021-07-05 5:28 ` Florian Weimer
2021-07-05 20:37 ` Joseph Myers
2021-07-03 3:24 ` Bruno Haible
2021-07-05 5:53 ` Carlos O'Donell
2021-06-15 3:39 ` Daniel Black
2021-06-15 16:09 ` Josh Triplett
2021-06-16 13:01 ` Alyssa Ross
2021-06-16 14:08 ` Adam Sampson
2021-06-16 19:33 ` Joseph Myers
2021-06-16 19:45 ` Phil Blundell
2021-06-30 21:54 ` Bradley M. Kuhn
2021-07-01 5:24 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2021-07-01 19:33 ` Bradley M. Kuhn
2021-07-02 3:29 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2021-07-03 6:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-01 8:19 ` Alexandre Oliva
2021-07-02 8:59 ` Florian Weimer
2021-06-30 22:21 ` Mark Wielaard
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