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[Gnu-arch-users] Re: contributors' licensing conditions
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Matthew Palmer |
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[Gnu-arch-users] Re: contributors' licensing conditions |
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Wed, 18 Jan 2006 11:56:36 +1100 |
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On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 12:47:07AM +0100, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> Could you please clarify this?
>
> Section 2(b) says ``under the terms of this License'', i.e. GPL-2. I
> don't see anything in Section 5 to that effect.
>
> | This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
> | it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
> | the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
> | (at your option) any later version.
>
> That is, you explicitly license it under version two, _and_ any later
> version.
I accept only version 2 of the licence, as is my option. "This License" now
means "version 2 only". Not to mention the fact that "this License" pretty
clearly refers to the text of the GPL, not the licence grant. It is
generally understood that dual licencing a work allows recipients to choose
either licence; by your reasoning, if something is dual-licenced GPL/QPL
(for instance), by the terms of the GPL my changes have to be dual-licenced
GPL/QPL, and anything that links to the program must be GPL/QPL, making
dual-licencing useless.
- Matt
(Now I *know* my sigmonster is sentient. It's picked this quote randomly
twice in a row for you. Oh, and "hook, line, and sinker" for last time.)
--
"The day when Hurd is so common that we want to emulate its braindamages is
not going to be in my life-time, I suspect."
-- Linus Torvalds
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- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: contributors' licensing conditions, (continued)
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: contributors' licensing conditions, Matthew Palmer, 2006/01/17
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: contributors' licensing conditions, Alfred M\. Szmidt, 2006/01/17
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: contributors' licensing conditions, Andy Tai, 2006/01/17
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: contributors' licensing conditions, Haakon Riiser, 2006/01/18
- [Gnu-arch-users] [OT] GNU Hurd, Ludovic Courtès, 2006/01/18
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [OT] GNU Hurd, Haakon Riiser, 2006/01/18
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [OT] GNU Hurd, Alfred M\. Szmidt, 2006/01/18
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [OT] GNU Hurd, Andy Tai, 2006/01/18
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [OT] GNU Hurd, Alfred M\. Szmidt, 2006/01/18
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: contributors' licensing conditions, Alfred M\. Szmidt, 2006/01/17
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: contributors' licensing conditions,
Matthew Palmer <=
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] contributors' licensing conditions, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2006/01/17
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] contributors' licensing conditions, James Blackwell, 2006/01/19