LinuxSA Mailing list archives

  From: John Edwards <isplist@adam.com.au>
  To  : <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 12:56:26 +0930

Re: GPL question

Glen Turner wrote:
> 
> Mark:
> > The situation with the GPL is different, though, because it's a perpetual
> > license.  Once you, as a licensee, have agreed to its terms, you can
> > never be forced into different terms.
> 
> Not true, the copyright can expire meaning that the work
> can use used without agreeing to the license.

The government also have powers to use any intellectual property without
consideration if it's in the interests of public safety. 

The guy who invented those orange flashy lights you see at roadworks got
royally screwed by this - he came up with an extremely economical design
and instead of being paid for his IP, they gave him an award ceremony to
thank him for his contribution.

John Edwards

-- 
LinuxSA WWW: http://www.linuxsa.org.au/  IRC: #linuxsa on irc.linux.org.au
To unsubscribe from the LinuxSA list:
  mail linuxsa-request@linuxsa.org.au with "unsubscribe" as the subject