On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 3:06 PM, Hugo Roy hugo@fsfe.org wrote:
↪ 2015-09-24 Thu 14:07, Sam Liddicott sam@liddicott.com:
On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 10:27 AM, Hugo Roy hugo@fsfe.org wrote:
Le 24 septembre 2015 11:25:11 GMT+02:00, Sam Liddicott sam@liddicott.com a écrit :
To my understanding, works can be developed and also used privately by the developer in the case where the licensing combinations do not permit copying as coverd by copyright law.
Why do you think that? Can you elaborate?
The GPL license is a conditional permission to do something that would otherwise be forbidden by copyright.
Copyright does not prohibit such development, so no new permission is required.
It depends. Copyright laws give a monopoly on certain activities related to a “work” (which can be e.g. a computer program or a novel).
More precisely for software, the rights to reproduce, to adapt as well as the right to distribute forms of the software are restricted activities (see EU directive 91/250, article 4).
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:32009L0024
Interesting. I'm not personally subject to EU directives.
I'm now trying to find out if any members states have implemented it yet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Programs_Directive http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/3233/contents/made
So it seems unlikely to be prohibited yet; and in the instance under discussion I still think that it is not prohibited by the conflict of the two licences in question which grant freedom to use, placing restrictions on the distribution.
Sam