Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 04 Sep 2007 13:28:11 -0600 | From | "Chris Friesen" <> | Subject | Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing |
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Daniel Hazelton wrote: > On Tuesday 04 September 2007 09:27:02 Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > >>Daniel Hazelton <dhazelton@enter.net> writes: >> >>>US Copyright law. A copyright holder, regardless of what license he/she >>>may have released the work under, can still revoke the license for a >>>specific person or group of people. (There are some exceptions, but they >>>do not apply to the situation that is being discussed)
The OpenBSD policy page doesn't agree with you:
"...That means that having granted a permission, the copyright holder can not retroactively say that an individual or class of individuals are no longer granted those permissions. Likewise should the copyright holder decide to "go commercial" he can not revoke permissions already granted for the use of the work as distributed, though he may impose more restrictive permissions in his future distributions of that work."
http://www.openbsd.org/policy.html
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