Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 16:46:49 -0700 From: "Dave Walton" <dwalton@acm.org> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com>, <walton@nordicrecords.com>, <tlambert@primenet.com>, <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Berkeley removes Advertising Clause Message-ID: <19990909234907.26407.qmail@modgud.nordicrecords.com> In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19990909035742.0473d2c0@localhost> References: <000001befa71$c3920e10$021d85d1@youwant.to>
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On 9 Sep 99, at 4:02, Brett Glass wrote: > At 08:16 PM 9/8/99 -0700, David Schwartz wrote: > > >The rights of the original copyright holder to > >the derived work are precisely the same as to the original work. > > Not quite. The original copyright holder can't publish the derivative work > without permission from the person or person(s) who introduced new > material. But if they use the same license you did, then you have just as much right to publish a derivative of their work as they have to publish a derivative of your work. > > This is one of the traps inherent in the GPL. If you publish GPLed > code, and someone else modifies it and publishes an enhanced version, your > original code may now be obsolete. But you don't have the right to do what > you want with the improved code unless the person who improved it grants > you that right. You have as much right the other person's improvements as they had to your code. > Since the new contributor is likely to embrace the GPL's > anti-commercial ethos, it's unlikely that he will grant you the right to > sell the updated version for money. In a sense, your code has "run away" > from you. I was going to dispute this, but I went and re-read the GPL first. You do have a point, in a sense. Dave ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dave Walton dwalton@acm.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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