jtd wrote:
On Thursday 07 September 2006 11:47 am, Nachiketa Sadhu wrote:
So that will mean that after the GPL is revoked, you can not use
the software ?
yes - you cannot
Sorry to barge in. I reread the GPL V2 again, but could not
understand how a GPL V2 license can be revoked? Once the software
is released it is out of the hands of the releaser. Can some one
please point out the clause under which a license can be revoked
(unless the license clause is violated).
Copyright law (on whose foundations the gpl derives it's legal
standing) allows for revocation of any rights granted by the orginal
copyright holder. Hence the holder can revoke the rights granted by
the gpl (or any other right so granted under the provisions of
coyright).
But can it be revoked with retrospect effect? Unless that is the fact,
then this discussion is academic. Any software released will in all
perpetuity be still under GPL and free.
Thanks and regards.
N. Sadhu
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