From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id JAA12532; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 09:50:33 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id JAA12527 for caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 09:50:32 +0100 (MET) Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA08048 for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 02:59:26 +0100 (MET) Received: from suburbia.net (suburbia.net [203.4.184.1]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id fAU1xLT12266; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 02:59:22 +0100 (MET) Received: by suburbia.net (Postfix, from userid 110) id 97483259CA; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 12:59:19 +1100 (EST) Subject: Re: [Caml-list] License Conditions for OCaml In-Reply-To: To: Don Syme Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 12:59:19 +1100 (EST) Cc: gbacon@hiwaay.net, Julian Assange , Xavier Leroy , John Field , caml-list@inria.fr, rms@gnu.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL93 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Message-Id: <20011130015919.97483259CA@suburbia.net> From: proff@iq.org (Julian Assange) Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk > : Code > : / \ > : / \ > : GPLisation Artification > : > : At no stage does the Artistic License modify the GPL. > > Dual licensing is an implicit modification of the GPL: > > 5. You are not required to accept [the GPL], since you have not > signed it. However, nothing else grants you permission to modify or > [etc] No. The GPL is not retrospective. Consequently it can't climb the deriviation tree to get at the Artistic code. Thus this is not a modification of the GPL. In any event, copyrights can only be held by individuals and or registered organisations. The GPL itself is not such an entity. The FSF is, but (in this argument) only as far as the GPL is concerned. Provided all authors agree, copyright restrictions can be changed to anything thing they want at anytime. However, if they do not agree, that portion which falls under the malcontents' copyright must be completely excised. The FSF is the copyright holder of the GPL ("COPYING") and has not granted permission for it to be modified or used in another in a non-GPL setting (including by appending clauses). -- Julian Assange |If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people |together to collect wood or assign them tasks and proff@iq.org |work, but rather teach them to long for the endless proff@gnu.ai.mit.edu |immensity of the sea. -- Antoine de Saint Exupery ------------------- Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr