Subj : Re: GNU Public Licences Revisited (again)
To   : comp.programming
From : Gerry Quinn
Date : Tue Aug 30 2005 11:52 am

In article <7CNQe.4662$R5.809@news.indigo.ie>, 
david.golden@oceanfree.net says...
> Gerry Quinn wrote:
> 
> > No more than it's unfair that a farmer should plant a 
> > tree once and expect to own the apples every year thereafter.
> > 
> Should a farmer not be allowed plant the seeds of those apples (or more
> likely make scions of the tree given the peculiarities of apple
> propagation) from "his" tree to grow more trees because the guy he got
> the tree from (or who "designed" the tree?!) has a "right" to forbid
> it? 

Bit of a change of subject here.  As I understand it, contract law 
usually takes care of these cases.  I don't know if copyright is a 
major feature in case law.

[More stuff about apples, and no reply at all to the simple observation 
I made.]

- Gerry Quinn

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