Momchil Velikov wrote:
"Alexander" == Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@web.de> writes:
Alexander> You can violate the distribution right only with Alexander> illegal/unlawful/pirated copies
But the only way to obtain a legal copy is to accept the license:
"5. You are not required to accept this License, since you have not signed it. However, nothing else grants you permission to modify or distribute the Program or its derivative works. These actions are prohibited by law if you do not accept this License"
Is it possible to accept it and not be bound by its terms ?
You don't "accept" anything when you buy a book. Stallman wrote the GPL long before Softman vs Adobe... if you want reciprocal share- alike "license" that works, use the CPL, the OSL, and other solid contractual stuff like that. Well, read also this: http://tinyurl.com/6zfbu (The Role of Intellectual Property in Open Source Software) My humbly "A+B" can be found here: http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=410842A8.5D889B13%40web.de Uhmm, here's "C" (WRT nonliteral copying): http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=40FEBA51.102A9589%40web.de http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=40DFD973.890F4CE7%40web.de Both Christian Nadan, A Proposal to Recognize Component Works: How a Teddy Bears on the Competing Ends of Copyright Law and Christopher Heer, The Case against Copyright Protection of Non-literal Elements of Computer Software are MUST READ. regards, alexander.