Richard Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Henning Makholm wrote: > > > Hmm, but it does not say "it must be made available _solely_ under > > > this Agreement".
> > An interesting word game, but I think that a permission to relicense > > a work under arbitrary terms needs to be a little more explicit than > > this. > Well... you don't _need_ permission to relicense. I do, if my new license allows people to do things to the software that they have not been allowed to by the original author. > If a license allows redistribution, then by default you can > redistribute under whatever terms you like. We're not in a default situation. The license itself explicitly specifies that I must use the same license for source redistribution. > That the terms of the GPL do not conflict with the requirements the IPL > places on redistribution. They do. IPL requires that a Contributor must allow downstream users to release his code in object form without redistributing source code. GPL allows no such requirement. -- Henning Makholm

