On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 01:23:52PM +0200, Ketil Malde wrote: > > One question: if a patch (ie. a modification to an existing work) is > indeed a derived work, does that mean I cannot fork GPL projects > without the blessing of the maintainer? I.e: > > The GPL, of course, states that I may distribute modified works as > long as I provide the modifications under the GPL. But, what if the > original author -- who by assumption holds part of the copyright -- > refuses to agree to GPL-license my patch?
The maintainer has already given you permission to make and distribute patches under the GPL. See section 2. -- Jamie Webb _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.abridgegame.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
