From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Sep 9 3: 4: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA64B150CA for ; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 03:04:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id EAA05931; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 04:02:48 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19990909035742.0473d2c0@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 04:02:45 -0600 To: "David Schwartz" , , , From: Brett Glass Subject: RE: Berkeley removes Advertising Clause In-Reply-To: <000001befa71$c3920e10$021d85d1@youwant.to> References: <19990909025443.23751.qmail@modgud.nordicrecords.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. 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. 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. --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message