[ubuntu-uk] The genius of FSF

[Matthew East]

Hiya

* Mac:
> Matthew East wrote:
>     That seems to me not contract, but a beautiful and unexpected 
> inversion of copyright law.

A "beautiful inversion of copyright law" isn't a legal concept.

The extract you've cited from Eben isn't addressing the mechanism by
which an author who publishes material under the GPL agrees a carve out
 from his copyrights, it's addressing the result.

The mechanism is by way of a license (which, as per my previous email,
is a type of contract).

Here is a reasonable article on how the basics work -
http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/20050325novalis.html

Still, it doesn't matter too much for the purposes of discussing the
more intricate parts of the GPL v3, I just felt that it was worthwhile
to understand the basic concepts.

Matt
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