On Jan 10, 2004, at 18:21, Raul Miller wrote:
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 04:54:30PM +0000, Oliver Elphick wrote:Only true if it incorporates someone else's GPL source. If it is all the author's own work, he can do whatever he likes and the licence becomes a composite of the GPL and his additional restrictions.But we're not the author. Yeah, the author always has the right to copy and distribute the files, but I don't see how that applies here.
Actually, I think the real point here is that the packaging --- e.g.,debian/rules, etc. is under GPL. The mmix source code is just "data" to the GPL stuff, or aggregation.