From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, MSGID_RANDY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a2c7f6cbdb72aa16 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Ted Dennison Subject: Re: "proprietary", was Re: ada on linux Date: 2000/05/30 Message-ID: <8h0qd0$g1q$1@nnrp1.deja.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 629060530 References: <8grdg2$pgh$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8h0jgj$amb$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8h0mt3$d5j$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x66.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 204.48.27.130 Organization: Deja.com - Before you buy. X-Article-Creation-Date: Tue May 30 16:31:28 2000 GMT X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDtedennison Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.7 [en] (WinNT; I) Date: 2000-05-30T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <8h0mt3$d5j$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, Robert Dewar wrote: > Consider the following situation. Party A holds the copyright > to some code X and releases it under the GPL. > > Party B makes a useful modification. He holds the copyright > on this modification. He posts on the net > > "I have a really nice modification here to the code X" > > That does NOT mean that anyone is free to use this modification > unless party B very explicitly releases the modification under > the GPL. Well, I don't go and grab random code off the net to put in the baseline. Everything in OpenToken was either written by me or was submitted to me via (acrhived) email for the express purpose of being incorporated into the GMGPL baseline. But it certainly couldn't hurt to formailze this process a bit more. I'd hate for there to be a misunderstanding. -- T.E.D. http://www.telepath.com/~dennison/Ted/TED.html Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.