From: Georg Bauhaus <rm.dash-bauhaus@futureapps.de>
Subject: Re: Forking old GMGPL libs ?
Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2012 01:52:32 +0200
Date: 2012-10-06T01:52:32+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <506f72c0$0$6549$9b4e6d93@newsspool4.arcor-online.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5de9a47c-6594-4653-a083-38f90312e70e@googlegroups.com>
On 06.10.12 00:51, Patrick wrote:
> I was thinking about forking older GNAT libraries that were licensed under GMGPL. If someone gives me an older library that they received under the GMGPL then don't' they still have the right to redistribute it under the GMGPL ?
If you follow the text of the GMGPL, it speaks about
instances and linking of *this*. Not of derivative works,
not of changed works, and not about transferring the right
to decide on the copyright to anyone merely because they
also want their changes to be GMGPLed.
I cannot but read the exception as to apply to the software
*as* *is*. Period.
The Wikipedia entry on "GNAT Modified General Public License"
is junk, on several accounts. I'd rather not venture changing
it now, but perhaps it is best to just remove the introductory
sentence and add some links to legal prose that hopefully
exists somewhere.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-05 23:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-05 22:51 Forking old GMGPL libs ? Patrick
2012-10-05 23:52 ` Georg Bauhaus [this message]
2012-10-06 3:28 ` Patrick
2012-10-06 9:11 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-10-06 4:52 ` Stephen Leake
2012-10-06 7:10 ` Florian Weimer
2012-10-06 8:10 ` Simon Wright
2012-10-06 9:45 ` Brian Drummond
2012-10-06 11:27 ` LLVM and GCC (was: Forking old GMGPL libs ?) Ludovic Brenta
2012-10-06 14:04 ` Patrick
2012-10-06 15:11 ` Brian Drummond
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