On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 02:43:21PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > a single license apply to the work "as a whole", as you say. > > What do you mean by "once under the LGPL or public domain"? What > mechanism do you propose causes works to stop being licensed under the > LGPL, or withdrawn from the public domain? Mere distribution in > compliance with the terms of the GNU GPL is certainly not such a > mechanism. > I think what's being said is that "this work, or any part of it _can be_ distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL," which is certainly accurate if it incorporates a mixture of works under the GNU GPL, works under the GNU LGPL, and works in the public domain. The copyright file need not be exhaustive. As an example, I am the sole copyright holder of works which I allow to be distibuted under the terms of the GNU GPL. Also, if you pay me a certain number of dollars, I'll grant you a non-exclusive but otherwise unlimited license to copy, modify, and distribute the work. The package copyright file needn't mention the availability of the second license provided the first is adequite to permit distribution by Debian while also satisfying our Free Software Guidelines. -- Brian Ristuccia brian@ristuccia.com bristucc@cs.uml.edu
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