[OT] some weird GPL licensing questions

[Olaf Jan Schmidt]

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[Andreas Pour, Fr 13.02. 2004 18:48:18]
> While this is apparently the FSF's position, it is IMO unequivocally
> wrong. Intra-company distribution is still a distribution (ask e.g. MS
> if it is OK to buy one copy of software for all employees of a
> company)[1], and if the company tries to prevent employees from
> re-distributing further, it is imposing additional obligations and
> hence loses its right under the GPL to distribute at all.

The GPL does not say that I must give copies to whoever wishes to have 
them. This also means that a company is not required to distribute a 
GPLed software to third parties or to employees or to whomever.

Remember, it is the company that licenses the software, not the employees. 
While you are right that the company may not restrict the employees' 
rights to redistribute a GPLed software licensed under the GPL if they 
have obtained it, the company is not obliged to give copies to its 
employees for redistribution.

Olaf
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