On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 16:52 +0000, Sam Liddicott wrote: > I mean if the author says "you can only uses this on mondays and you > can distribute it under the GPL2" then surely recipients from you are > not bound by +bits. As the author is not distributing to secondary > users (by definition) he can't put them under those terms
The author isn't distributing, but he is licensing - you don't get the license from the person who gives you the copy. So, everyone is getting it under the same license. There is no "original licensee". > I can see your point that you might be able to combine it with your > own code and release as GPL+bits, but if you combined with someone > elses GPL code you would be adding +bits to a derivation of their > work, which they forbid. Sure, but that means that it's not GPL compatible, not non-free or undistributable. Cheers, Alex. _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list Fsfe-uk@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
