Re: NEW ocaml licence proposal by upstream, will be part of the 3.08.1 release going into sarge.
> >> so it does not prohibit specifying a particular GPL version to the
> >> exclusion of others.
> > False. Section 6 says:
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 03:43:49PM -0400, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote:
> Er, section 6 isn't the copyleft in the GPL. It's the "public
> license" part. It only grants rights to *the Program*, which is the
> original work. Look at the third line below. The copyleft is in GPL 2.
The different parts work together.
2 means that all the terms applied to modified versions which are
distributed just as much as they apply to unmodified versions.
Section 6 happens to be one of those terms and it talks about how those
terms apply to other people.
--
Raul
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