Re: GPL compatibility of DFCL

["Joe Moore" <joemoore@iegrec.org>]

Glenn Maynard <g_dlegal@zewt.org> worte:
> Branden suggested this in [🔎] 20020614174209.GC15493@deadbeast.net, I
> think: what if a piece of code was under these types of terms, and when
> removed, instead of reverting to less restrictive terms than the GPL
> (as programs normally do), reverted to a proprietary license?

Then the original license would not be compatible with the GPL.

The additional restrictions that "magically appear" when the GPL'd code is
removed are, well, additional restrictions, incompatible with the GPL.

--Joe


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