On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 08:36:44PM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > > On Thursday, June 13, 2002, at 05:58 , Branden Robinson wrote: > > > If you > >incorporate that work into a GPLed one, the endorsement terms would be > >"masked off", but would re-assert themselves once the > >independently-copyrighted were were extracted from its GPLed container. > > 1) Take a document A under the proposed license. > 2) Convert it to the GPL, by adding section B. > 3) Remove section B. The GPL allows this. > > Result: Document A, under the GPL. No endorsement clause. > > I believe that any license attempting to stop (3), above, would > be in contradiction to the GPL's no additional restrictions > clause. As I just told Glenn Maynard, I think I refuted this argument in Message-ID: <[🔎] 20020614014317.GF9051@deadbeast.net>. The GPL convertibility only applies if the DFCLed work is distributed as part of a separate GPLed work. Once extracted from its GPLed housing, the endorsements clause reasserts itself because the GPL cannot *remove* the copyright or the license on another work. > However, and approach that could be taken --- and I'm sorry if > I've misunderstood you --- is to require this in exchange for > additional rights. Something like: > > If you include the endorsements section, the copyright holders > will, at your option, waive (whichever section of GPL requires > distributing source) on the condition that you place the (source > code) of this version of this document at a publicly-accessable > URL for no less than one year. > > You may remove the above exception from any copy you distribute. > > or just the standard you may distribute under either licese. It may in fact be easier to just build in dual-licensing under the GPL into the DFCL. However I don't think there is an actual technical problem with my proposal. -- G. Branden Robinson | It was a typical net.exercise -- a Debian GNU/Linux | screaming mob pounding on a greasy branden@debian.org | spot on the pavement, where used to http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | lie the carcass of a dead horse.
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