Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:00:15 -0400 | From | "Dmitry Torokhov" <> | Subject | Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 |
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On 6/14/07, Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> wrote: > On Jun 14, 2007, "Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 6/14/07, Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> wrote: > >> On Jun 14, 2007, Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@insightbb.com> wrote: > >> > >> > On Wednesday 13 June 2007 21:59, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > >> >> For example, if you distribute copies of such a program, whether > >> >> gratis or for a fee, you must give the recipients > >> >> all the rights that you have. > >> >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > >> > >> > So if I am a sole author of a program and I chose to distribute it under > >> > GPL > >> > >> then you're not a licensee, you're a licensor, and these terms don't > >> apply to you. > > > Heh. When you change a GPLed program and pass your changes you are the > > licensor for the new code. You still have a right and license pieces > > of the code you wrote under different license but you do not pass that > > right to recepient of modified work. > > You are the author of the change, and you can license them however you > like. [... skip...] > > Derived work or not, when you combine that change with the program, > then you're bound by the terms of the license, and then you cannot > change the licensing terms of the whole program, so you can't pass > this right on either. >
Ok, consider non-derived work. Because I am distributing whole program I have to do it under GPL. However I still have the right to distribute just the portion that is written by me under whatevel license I want but you as a recepient of GPLed whole do not get this right. IOW I am not passing all the rights _I have_.
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