[TriLUG] TPP could invalidate the GPL

[Bill Farrow via TriLUG]

On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 3:21 PM, Roger Broseus <RogerB at bronord.com> wrote:
> It's not clear to me, after reading the post, what the rationale is that
> says the TPP is bad for open source and/or FOSS
>
>> "No Party shall require the transfer of, or access to, source code of
>> software owned by a person of another Party, as a condition for the
>> import, distribution, sale or use of such software, or of products
>> containing such software, in its territory."
>>   http://keionline.org/node/2363

The GPL requires that the recipients have access to source code. If
the TPP says that you can't require access to the source code, then
the terms of the GPL would not be met and the recipient would not have
a license to use the copyrighted work.

Please correct me if I am wrong here. I would love to see a logical
decomposition that arrives at a different conclusion.


Bill