From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Sep 9 16:49:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from modgud.nordicrecords.com (h21-168-107.nordicdms.com [207.21.168.107]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8736E14C58 for ; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 16:49:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwalton@acm.org) Received: (qmail 26416 invoked by alias); 9 Sep 1999 23:49:08 -0000 Message-ID: <19990909234907.26407.qmail@modgud.nordicrecords.com> Received: (qmail 26381 invoked from network); 9 Sep 1999 23:49:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO walton) (207.21.168.137) by mail.nordicdms.com with SMTP; 9 Sep 1999 23:49:07 -0000 From: "Dave Walton" To: Brett Glass , "David Schwartz" , , , Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 16:46:49 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: RE: Berkeley removes Advertising Clause Reply-To: dwalton@acm.org In-reply-to: <4.2.0.58.19990909035742.0473d2c0@localhost> References: <000001befa71$c3920e10$021d85d1@youwant.to> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.11) Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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