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Re: Can a recipients rights under GNU GPL be revoked?#

From	Curt <curty@free.fr>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Can a recipients rights under GNU GPL be revoked?#
Date	2019-01-28 12:10 +0100
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On 2019-01-28, Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 27, 2019 at 07:24:17PM -0500, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
>>Resending to the list -- I didn't notice that Ivan had sent this to me only,
>>and my reply, of course, then went to him only.
>
> How strange; both that Ivan would mail you privately, and also I wonder
> what the context was that prompted Ben to post the message starting this
> thread in the first place.
>
> When considering what is possible or not in law, especially when more
> than one self-professed legal expert (vsnsdualce?) are in conflict with
> one another, it sometimes helps to look at what has *actually happened*.
> I don't believe that any court has yet ruled to support the revocation
> of the GPL. When threats of such a thing come from Eric Raymond of all
> people, I make sure I put plenty of salt on my shopping list.
>


Threat doesn't seem like the appropriate word for whatever's coming from Eric
Raymond concerning the matter.

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Re: Can a recipients rights under GNU GPL be revoked? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-01-28 01:30 +0100
  Re: Can a recipients rights under GNU GPL be revoked? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-01-28 01:40 +0100
    Re: Can a recipients rights under GNU GPL be revoked? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-01-28 10:30 +0100
      Re: Can a recipients rights under GNU GPL be revoked? mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2019-01-28 12:00 +0100
        Re: Can a recipients rights under GNU GPL be revoked? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-01-28 13:30 +0100
          Re: Can a recipients rights under GNU GPL be revoked? mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2019-01-28 14:00 +0100
            Re: Can a recipients rights under GNU GPL be revoked? John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2019-01-28 15:10 +0100
            Re: Can a recipients rights under GNU GPL be revoked? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-01-28 16:20 +0100
              Re: Can a recipients rights under GNU GPL be revoked? mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2019-01-28 17:50 +0100
          Re: Can a recipients rights under GNU GPL be revoked? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2019-01-28 14:20 +0100
            Re: Can a recipients rights under GNU GPL be revoked? John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2019-01-28 15:30 +0100
      Re: Can a recipients rights under GNU GPL be revoked? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-01-28 16:10 +0100
  Re: Can a recipients rights under GNU GPL be revoked?# Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2019-01-28 11:40 +0100
    Re: Can a recipients rights under GNU GPL be revoked?# Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-01-28 12:10 +0100
  Re: Can a recipients rights under GNU GPL be revoked? Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> - 2019-01-28 13:40 +0100

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