Timeline for Can I sneak around my copyleft obligations with adhesion contracts?
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| Mar 20 at 14:00 | comment | added | Brian | @bdb484: Red Hat's rather circuitous approach to protecting their source code suggests that their lawyers think I'm right (or at least close to right that a legal battle would be difficult or expensive). Were it legal, Red Hat would have certainly definitely preferred OP's strategy. Both approaches are equally reputationally damaging. | |
| Mar 18 at 17:09 | comment | added | bdb484 | To be clear, I think it's entirely possible you're right. I just think the answer is less certain than people seem to realize. | |
| Mar 18 at 17:09 | comment | added | bdb484 | I'm not sure that that provision overrides all of contract law. I can say all sorts of things about what you may or may not do; saying it doesn't make it true. | |
| Mar 18 at 13:03 | comment | added | Brian | @bdb484: Because it does. You can't restrict others from exercising the things the license permits. Quoting the license: "Each time you convey a covered work, the recipient automatically receives a license from the original licensors, to run, modify and propagate that work, subject to this License. [...] You may not impose any further restrictions on the exercise of the rights granted or affirmed under this License. " | |
| Mar 16 at 2:26 | comment | added | bdb484 | @Brian Why do you say that? | |
| Mar 15 at 18:52 | history | edited | Keltari | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 15 at 14:15 | comment | added | Brian | "So does that license prohibit forming contracts with people not to do things it permits? " - Yes, it does. | |
| Mar 14 at 16:19 | history | edited | Keltari | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 14 at 14:48 | comment | added | interfect | Yes. So does that license prohibit forming contracts with people not to do things it permits? Or am I not allowed to agree with you that you will stop sending CDs with my software to my house, because the GPL requires that I not form these restrictive ancillary agreements? | |
| Mar 14 at 14:43 | history | answered | Keltari | CC BY-SA 4.0 |