Messages in this thread | | | From | "Khimenko Victor" <> | Date | Tue, 28 Dec 1999 12:27:41 +0300 (MSK) | Subject | Re: Announce: DinX windowing system 0.2.0 |
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In <Pine.LNX.4.10.9912280322120.2944-100000@asdf.capslock.lan> Mike A. Harris (mharris@meteng.on.ca) wrote: > On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Rick Hohensee wrote:
>> The GPL requires that derived works of GPL'ed works be GPL'ed. >> >> >>The authors of GPLed works may make exceptions. I urge the authors of Linux >>to refuse and discourage requests for such exceptions, and to speak plainly >>about unauthorized violations.
> Please post the relevant lines from the GNU GPL document that say > that an author may make exceptions. I have read it several times > and can not find it. Perhaps my copy of the GPL is not > authentic.
It's not GPL. It's basic copyright law: author can issue product as many times as he wants. Even if such licenses are incompatible. GPL restricts all, except authors (or cpyright holders to be exact :-) Of course in case of product with few authors all authors should agree on terms ...
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