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Date:      Thu, 20 Dec 2001 21:15:33 -0600
From:      "Mike Meyer" <mwm-dated-1009336534.95d7c6@mired.org>
To:        swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen)
Cc:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: GPL nonsense: time to stop
Message-ID:  <15394.43349.782935.475024@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <lpellpwlhe.llp@localhost.localdomain>
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Gary W. Swearingen <swear@blarg.net> types:
> When you combine copies you also combine the works by a kind of
> instantaneous communication (lawyers > physicists). :-) This then
> propagates instantaneously to other copies under the same concept.

Having read your analysis of the derivative work case, I want to know
what "combine copies" means?

This sounds like it's possible for party A to license software S from
party B, then have the terms of the license changed by party C by
"combining copies", even though they have nothing to do with A, B or
any rights to S. That one is a bit hard to swallow.

	<mike
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