Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 2:13 PM, Joerg Schilling Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote:
The GPL is all that gives you permission to distribute. If it is void then you have no permission at all to distribute any covered code.
Fortunately judges know better than you....
If you read the reasoning from judgements, you would know that judges just look at the parts of the GPL that are not in conflict with the law. Judges know that making the GPL void as a whole would be a desaster.
There is nothing in conflict with law about prohibiting distribution. And you cant' just unilaterally pick parts of the licence that permits distribution that you like and ignore the rest.
There is no doubt that the GPL is on conflict with
US Copyright law title 17 paragraph 106
if you believe that this makes the GPL void as a whole, verify that you are trying to be serious and stop shipping your Linux distro immediately!
Jörg