Re: GPL "or any greater version"
On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 07:42:41PM -0400, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote:
> > The original licensor (copyright holder) can govern the distribution terms
> > of derived works. This is a right granted by copyright law.
>
> No, he can't. He can *restrict* the distribution terms of derived
> works, but he doesn't have full rights to them. The person who
> prepared the derived work also has copyright on it.
>
> He certainly can't unilaterally grant a license to work to which he
> doesn't own exclusive rights.
No, but he can prevent the author of the derivative work from distributing it
under terms that he finds unacceptable.
--Adam
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Adam McKenna <adam@debian.org> <adam@flounder.net>
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