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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: The GNU Public License
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John Cowan
Don't be so sure. Judges are fairly good at catching exceptions like "The user has to download it himself" and casting them to "You are an infringing distributor."
In particular, the DeCSS/2600 decision, though turning on circumvention rather than copyright, settled (in the U.S., at least) that linking is equivalent to distributing in certain circumstances, and since linking is just a convenient form of citation, saying "Go and download X to use this program" may be constructive distribution of X.
I am not a lawyer; this is not legal advice, but it is not the unauthorized practice of law, either.
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