[cc-community] public performance and GPL

Anthony osm at inbox.org
Tue Jan 10 21:34:13 EST 2012


On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 9:29 PM, Richard Fontana <rfontana at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 09:12:58PM -0500, Anthony wrote:
>> Transmitting that performance/binary in a way which *enables* others
>> to make a copy, is conveying it.  (Surely transmitting a performance
>> through FM radio enables others to make a copy.)
>
> Perhaps. I think this possibly exposes a drafting flaw in GPLv3's
> definition of "convey", one I've thought about before in one or two
> other, very different corner-case software-related contexts. (Although
> perhaps many people on this list wouldn't consider it a flaw - I'm
> suggesting "convey" wasn't intended to have as broad a meaning as
> this.)

What is the flaw?

It seems to me that this is intentional.  If you help someone else get
a copy of the work, by any means whatsoever, you have to help them get
the source.

I think you might be confusing publicly performing the output from
running the program with publicly performing the program.


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