From: freedomfromruin@aaathats3as.com
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: GPL v2 licensing, continued
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2018 03:29:52 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85862189a9314c9425585b5b671a0106@aaathats3as.com> (raw)
Gnu GPL version 2, section 0:
"Each licensee is addressed as "you". "
The "you" is not referring to the licensor (copyright owner). It is
referring to the licensees and then future
sub-licensees/additional-licensees receiving the work from said previous
licensee.
It is independently clear from the context of the clauses if you read
them in full.
...and then section 0 comes around and makes it _explicit_ that "you"
refers to the licensee. (if you had any doubt)
Additionally, you should know that the copyright owner is not bound by
the gratuitous license he proffers to potential licensees regarding his
property. The licensees are bound to his terms: he is the owner. They
take at his benefaction.
<blockquote>
GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
0. This License applies to any program or other work which contains
a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it may be distributed
under the terms of this General Public License. The "Program", below,
refers to any such program or work, and a "work based on the Program"
means either the Program or any derivative work under copyright law:
that is to say, a work containing the Program or a portion of it,
either verbatim or with modifications and/or translated into another
language. (Hereinafter, translation is included without limitation in
the term "modification".) Each licensee is addressed as "you".
</blockquote>
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