Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Announce: DinX windowing system 0.2.0 | Date | Tue, 28 Dec 1999 06:28:57 -0500 | From | "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <> |
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In message <Pine.LNX.4.10.9912280322120.2944-100000@asdf.capslock.lan>, "Mike A . Harris" writes: +----- | On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Rick Hohensee wrote: | >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 +--->8
It doesn't need such a statement: the author *always* has the last word on licensing.
However, such a modified license isn't the GPL.
-- brandon s. allbery os/2,linux,solaris,perl allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator kthkrb,heimdal,gnome,rt allbery@ece.cmu.edu carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering kf8nh We are Linux. Resistance is an indication that you missed the point.
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