Re: [OctDev] GPL violations

[Martin H. <ma...@mh...>]

Am Freitag, 27. August 2010, 21:39:49 schrieb Jaroslav Hajek:
> The BSD allows adding restrictions; GPL does not. So much the facts.
I know that. My comment was the following hope more clearly (and this is not 
restricted to the discussion about this special website at MC):

How do you or I or anyone else by looking at a code which contains a license 
(be it BSD or GPL or whatever else) know if one is allowed to use it according 
to that license which is mentioned in the code if you cannot trace all the 
places where it was ever uploaded and then downloaded and uploaded and 
distributed again and knowing for every such site the ToS to judge that on 
this unknown way the code took there was a place where the ToS was violated, 
when it is not mentioned in the license?
You do not know that from looking at the source codes license, I do not know 
that and nobody else.
Following the logic that such thing is possible means: Stop using any free 
software license immediately you never can know if you do not violate a ToS 
which is not mentioned in the license.

> If you wish, search the previous discussion on this topic. Basically,
> there were two fundamental questions:
> 
> 1. Whether it is legal to add restrictions to BSD code when it's
> redistributed without modifications.
> 2. Whether it is legal to add such restrictions through an external
> ToS agreement.
> 
I allready read this discussions as I follow them for a long time now (and 
also several years on different places). Either there exist free open source 
licenses and they are valid or they are worthless.

- Martin