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SubjectRe: OFFTOPIC: GTK and alternative GUIs and windowing systems in Linux
> 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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