Re: Licensing Problems with Debian Packages (Was Re: Copyright lawyers analysis of Andreas Pour's Interpretation)
On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 07:50:31PM -0500, Andreas Pour wrote:
> Section 3. You may opt to apply the terms of the ordinary GNU
> General Public License instead of this License to a given copy of
> the Library. To do this, you must alter all the notices that refer
> to this License, so that they refer to the ordinary GNU General
> Public License, version 2 instead of to this License. (If a newer
> version than version 2 of the ordinary GNU General Public License
> has appeared, then you can specify that version instead if you
> wish.) Do not make any other change in these notices.
>
> Once this change is made in a given copy, it is irreversible for
> that copy, so the ordinary GNU General Public License applies to
> all subsequent copies and derivative works made from that copy.
>
> This option is useful when you wish to copy part of the code of
> the Library into a program that is not a library.
>
> Now, let's look at it sentence by sentence, so even I can comprehend it.
Excuse me.
Your "sentence by sentence" treatment managed to completely ignore that
third paragraph of section 3.
What do you think it means?
--
Raul
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