On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 05:35:40PM +0100, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote: > ???
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal-0106/msg00143.html > I don't belong to the school that believes that everything is > forbidden unless explicitly permitted. http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/106.html > It's not at all clear from the context what you mean by "this", but I > can only guess you mean "combining proprietary code and GPL for > in-house use". I was indeed talking about the subject of this thread. > This need not involve distribution, I think. True. For example, if we're talking about the single instance of a unique work then no copies have been distributed. > Currently my own opinion is that it's all right to combine proprietary > code and GPL code if you don't distribute the result, but it's not all > right to tell other people to do it, because, by telling other people > to do it, you are covertly distributing the result. Sure, it's the large-scale result that's relevant. FYI, -- Raul
