[haiku] Re: Drupal Template

  • From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
  • To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:50:48 +0100

On 2010-01-04 at 00:16:54 [+0100], Niels Reedijk <niels.reedijk@xxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> 2010/1/3 Matt Madia <mattmadia@xxxxxxxxx>:
> >> That's fine, but understand that under the GPL when you pass it to
> >> other people they have the right to modify, and distribute the source
> >> code. So this includes the right to publish it. So any agreement to
> >> keep it 'under wraps' is a gentlemen's agreement, not one enforceable
> >> through a license or copyright. Just for your information.
> >>
> > Not only that, once the theme is distributed to anyone outside of the
> > organization, then it must be freely available to anyone. To me,
> > 'organization' in this sense infers 'websites under Haiku Inc. --
> > *.haiku-os.org, *.haiku-files.org'.  3rd party websites, Haikuware,
> > OSDrawer, Haiku-os.it, and so-on would be outside of the organization,
> > since they are not affiliated with Haiku Inc.
> 
> That's a misunderstanding of the GPL that we have come across on this
> list before.
> 
> Shortly put: when you distribute a binary (or the source) to someone,
> that person has the right to modify and distribute it. If Jorge passes
> on the source to me, I can modify and/or distribute that.
> 
> The error is in thinking that if Jorge sends it to me, he must make it
> available for everyone. That is not true. Only the people that get it
> have the right to access the source and distribute it.
> 
> Of course, anyone with access to the source can distribute it. So
> that's why you can only rely on a gentlemen's agreement if you want to
> share some GPL code but want to keep it under wraps.

Demonstrating my utter ignorance of how these themes work: Am I supposing 
correctly that the process of delivering the theme (?) to the website 
visitor does not count as distribution? Would what the website visitor gets 
to see be more fittingly compared with the output of a GPL'ed program?

CU, Ingo

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