Corel: No "internal" exemption in GPL

Forrest J. Cavalier III mibsoft at mibsoftware.com
Wed Sep 22 16:53:43 UTC 1999


 From:          "Derek J. Balling" <dredd at megacity.org>

> If you move it from one machine to more than one machine you have 
> distributed it. Whether or not you personally consider it distributed is 
> irrelevant. In the absence of a definition of distributed being in the GPL, 
> 
If both machines are your own machines for your own use, you still have not 
distributed it (unless making a backup copy would be distributing as 
well), but I understand what you meant....and it is not the 
definition of "distribution" which needs scrutiny, IMO.

The issue, as I wrote, is whether the human is the licensee as 
per the GPL.  In a legal sense, the licensee may be the company, not
the human.



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