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From: owinebar@ezinfo.ucs.indiana.edu (Lynn Winebarger)
Subject: Re: GPL and "free" software
Date: 1999/04/27
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Date: 1999-04-27T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <7g2l0f$58g$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
Robert Dewar  <robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com> wrote:
>But in fact C is NOT free to further distribute this
>software, since C does not hold a license. C has been
>granted a license neither by B nor by A, thus C cannot
>copy the software at all.

   No, C _is_ free to do so.  The GPL is granted to everyone - it's a
license on the copyright, not a particular copy.  That is C has, in
fact, been granted a license by A, regardless of what B told them, or
intends.  At least, it has been granted a license to the original work,
and copyrights apply to derivative works as well (not necessarily the
bare modifications, but the derivative work itself, after modification).

  Of course, IANAL.

Lynn