Re: GNU License and Computer Break Ins
On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 10:15:45PM -0400, Mike Bilow wrote:
> At the risk of seeming to pick nits, this is not actually the effect
> of the GPL. The author of a GPL work can license it to different
> parties on different terms; only authors of derivative works are so
> encumbered.
That's not so much a nit as a complete aside.
[1] I was talking about what the GPL grants to recipients of the work.
Copyright holders already have more rights than what the GPL (or any
other license) grants.
[2] If a work isn't being distributed under the GPL then obviously the
GPL is irrelevant.
--
Raul
On 2000-05-19 at 22:27 -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> > However, the GPL tries to make sure that -- once copies of GPLed software
> > are distributed -- the recipients of the software have as many rights as
> > any other recipients of any other versions of that software. [That means
> > no peculiar rules about how recipient c has to follow special procedures
> > when modifying the version of the software received from recipient f,
> > for instance.]
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