On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 09:26:31PM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote: > On 6/8/05, Ketil Malde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Jamie Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > and the GPL states that by distributing a derived work, > > > you implicitly GPL that work > > > > Agreed. > > Pedantically speaking, no. You do not have a license to distribute a > work derived from a GPL'd original, unless you also GPL the derived > work. So if you *do* distribute a derived work without the GPL, then > you do so without a license - there's no implicit GPL. And nobody > else has a license to use that derived work until you explicitly slap > a GPL on it.
That license is implicit when an author distributes the work which he has derived. From section 5 of the GPL: "Therefore, by modifying or distributing the Program (or any work based on the Program), you indicate your acceptance of this License to do so, and all its terms and conditions for copying, distributing or modifying the Program or works based on it." -- Jamie Webb _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.abridgegame.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
