On Aug 20, 2:40 am, Lasse Reichstein Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 07:03:58 +0200,mike3<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But the GPL does not impose a restriction on the person _creating_ the > > software who intends to release it under the GPL, right? > > The GPL does not impose restrictions on anybody. Ever. > > What it does is to conditionally grant rights. If you meet the conditions, > you > are granted the rights. If not, you're left with whatever copyright law > allows. > > The author of something already has all the rights that a license can > possibly > grant, i.e., the rights that copyright law reserves for the author, so he > won't > have to worry about satisfying any conditions. >
OK. > /L > -- > Lasse R. Nielsen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 'Faith without judgement merely degrades the spirit divine' > Reproduction of this message, or parts thereof, is allowed if proper > attribution is given. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
