On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 09:12:31AM +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > Of course it is. Any author, at any time, as holder of the > copyright of his original work can change the license of his work and > previous work and turn it into a non-DFSG work. Example: packet filtering > code in OpenBSD. Contrary to what people might think, not only can I > chance the license of version X, I can change the license of version X > minus 1, X minus 2, X minus 3... Any license that is revocable at will in this manner is not DFSG-free, even if would otherwise be. -- G. Branden Robinson | You don't just decide to break Debian GNU/Linux | Kubrick's code of silence and then branden@debian.org | get drawn away from it to a http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | discussion about cough medicine.
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