From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" Message-ID: <87668fx0i1.fsf@becket.becket.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii References: , <877kszs4ff.fsf@becket.becket.net>, <9soauj$ct5$1@inputplus.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: [9fans] one reason ideas from Plan 9 didn't catch on Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 10:27:24 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2031d07e-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Ralph Corderoy writes: > > But it imposes no obligation of any kind on you to distribute your > > software to John, Mary, or Alice, whether on request or otherwise. > > You and Fred are perfectly entitled, under the GPL, to keep your > > modifications entirely private if you should so choose. > > But Fred is also entitled, if he so chooses, to distribute the program > and the source as far and as wide as he likes without any further > agreement from me. Am I correct? Certainly. If you choose to give a copy to Fred, and it's copylefted, then Fred gets the right to send copies where he wants, when he wants. But neither he nor you have any obligation to do so.