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Re: Question about DFSG and a THC project



On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Sam Hartman wrote:
> However, if you modified the work, you were not obligated to pass
> along the OpenSSL exception.

You are not obligated to pass along the exception for your own
copyrighted material, but the exception continues for the original
work.

> It's not actually clear you even had the necessary rights to do so.

You have the right to make the exception for your own work, and since
the original work maintains the exception, you can combine the two to
make an exception over the whole work. [Assuming that the original
exception is sanely worded, anyway.]


Don Armstrong

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support the government. -- anonymous

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