Re: Fwd: Questions regarding licensing issues

[Robert Dewar <dewar at adacore dot com>]

On 11/7/2012 11:08 AM, Richard Kenner wrote:
> > 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.

And why should they? Or why would they?
> > 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!

Me too!
>