On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, Glenn Maynard wrote: > On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 09:39:18AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > > Assuming the upstream author has properly licensed upstream's > > contributions under the GPL, we can distribute those contributions so > > long as we comply with the terms of the GPL. [There is an argument > > that the upstream author can't actually distribute upstream's > > contributions under the GPL, but I'd suggest that even if this is the > > case, if we can comply with the GPL, we should be able to distribute > > it ourselves.] > > This is very confusing. Can you please distinguish between the two > upstream authors in a way other than calling one "upstream" and the > other "upstream author"?
Sorry about that. There's only one thing here: "upstream's contributions" (ie, those things written by the upstream author that form a derivative work in combination with other GPLed works.) [In retrospect, I should have worded this better to avoid confusion between contributions to upstream, and the work(s) that upstream has written.] Don Armstrong -- Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. -- Mark Twain http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu