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[Dave J Woolley]

> From:	Alexander Eichler [SMTP:alexander.eichler at wfm.de]
> 
> in US, it needs copyright law to act like it does. Conclusion is, that GPL
> is only a possibility to give the right to use to somebody else. Copyright
> beneath this still exists. So GPL is a license agreement. As any other
	[DJW:]  
	GPL is founded on copyright.  In fact, I've heard that
	the FSF will insist that copyright ownership is made
	very clear before accepting something under the Gnu 
	banner.

> In US it is said that there is no way to prevent people of distributing
> derivative works. There is a discussion whether GPL is an agreement, a
> 
	[DJW:] This is a design aim of the GPL, not a side
	effect. 


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