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Re: Acknowledgment clause in GPL code?



Copyright law reserves certain acts, including modification and
redistribution, to the copyright holder. The Debian project only has
permission to redistribute under terms as granted explicitly by the
copyright holder in a license grant.

Thus, if a work is received by the Debian project under "GPL plus
extra terms", then, if those extra terms place additional restrictions
beyond the GPL, Debian cannot satisfy both those terms and the terms
of the GPL section 6; and thus, under section 7, may not redistribute
the work at all.


You do not have addressed my points. Why does Debian can not satisfy GPL + extra terms? The GPL + extra terms is the conditions that Debian must satisfy. The GPL forbids _Debian_ to put additional restrictions; it does not says that Debian cannot distribute a GPL + additional restriction software if these extra conditions has been put by the copyright holder; since it is not Debian who have put these additional restrictions (and the copyright holder cannot violate the GPL).

Of course if these extar terms make the software non free then it is another problem.

Olive



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