Re: wdm copyright

[john@dhh.gt.org]

Marcelo writes:
> Now my question is: is it ok to release this thing under the GPL?  Moving
> from the X Consortium's license to GPL is a rather drastic license
> change. Should the copyright read something more like xbase's copyright,
> i.e., the part the wdm author wrote is GPLed, and the xdm stuff is still
> under X Consortium's license or XFree86's?

That is what actually happens, regardless of what license he puts on his
derivative work.  That is, no matter what his license says, I can copy out
the material that he copied from xdm and do anything with it that complies
with the xdm license.

You must, of course, include the xdm license in your wdm package.  If the
wdm author has not done so he is infringing the xdm copyright.
-- 
John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI