The Copyright Act preempts the GPL

[jcowan at reutershealth.com]

Ryan Ismert scripsit:

> It seems to me that what Russell is suggesting (or what one could suggest, 
> even if Russell is not) is that the condition being imposed is not in fact a 
> condition on an exclusive right -- the distribution of a derivative work--, 
> as Daniel holds, but rather a condition on the permission to create 
> derivative works in the first place.

I agree with this characterization completely, and assert that there is no
such exclusive right to distribute derivative works (or rather that there
is such a right, but it's the maker of the derivative work who has it).

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