Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 12 Feb 1998 08:17:56 +0100 | From | Martin von Loewis <> | Subject | Re: OFFTOPIC: GTK and alternative GUIs and windowing systems in Linux |
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> 4) Developer A announced that it was his belief that the GPL was > a revocable license: that is, that he, the copyright holder, > had the right to revoke the GPL, and demand that no further copies > be distributed under the terms of the GPL.
See, this is exactly the strength of the GPL. Developer A is clearly wrong. He can distribute new versions of his stuff under a new license, sure, but he cannot change the license he gave to people in the past. So if it's now part of core Perl - lucky perl community.
Martin
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