Is linux free 5036

Unruh

Only if he gave you complete rights. He could give you permission to copy for a specific purpose and no others if he so chose. Thus, I might grant copyright permission to a book publisher for first publication of something I wrote, but not grant the publisher permission to reprint later (though in practice, I doubt a major publisher would accept such a limited copyright grant. Maybe Joanne Rowling has the clout to demand such a thing.).

The GPL is more generously administered than typical copyrights in that the intent is to have the work copied and to prevent others from limiting ones right to copy. The GPL need not have been that way, but if it were not, there would not be much point to it.

I was responding to something I misread. I thought (I think it was) you said "Thus I do not believe that copyright law has anything to say about your copying Redhat for your own use" when actually you said: "Thus I do not believe that trademark law has anything to say about your copying Redhat for your own use"

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