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Re: Fwd: Questions regarding licensing issues
> Correct. A court of competent jurisdiction can decide whether your scheme
> conforms to the relevant licenses; neither licensing@fsf.org nor the
> people on this list can.
A minor correction: licensing@fsf.org *could* determine that since they are
the copyright holders. If they say it's OK, that would be permitting such
a scheme. However, the FSF, as a matter of policy, *does not* respond to
queries about whether or not some scheme violates the GPL.
> I believe in free software as a contribution to a better society and
> believe in the use of licenses such as GPLv3 to promote software sharing
> by providing a software commons that can be used by those who will
> contribute their changes to that commons, and do not consider this list -
> or any GNU Project list - an appropriate place to seek advice about how to
> do things going against the spirit of that commons.
I very much agree!