"Anthony W. Youngman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, MJ Ray > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > >Adding any restrictions to plain GPL results in an invalid licence > >as in http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/05/msg00303.html > > I think you're wrong here ... (certainly if the entire grant is by a > single entity)
By "invalid", I take MJ Ray's meaning as "not a usable license for recipients of the work". > Thing is, the licence, as granted by the !copyright holder! is not > "GPL", but "GPL plus restrictions". The result can't be invalid, > because it is granted by the copyright holder, and is clear as to > what is granted. The result can be a license with contraditory terms, as in this case (GPL requires no additional restrictions; yet additional restrictions are required). Since the terms are contradictory, the recipient cannot simultaneously satisfy all the terms of the license; thus the recipient has no valid license in the work. -- \ "All good things are cheap; all bad are very dear." -- Henry | `\ David Thoreau | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
