Am Thursday, dem 22. Nov 2007 schrieb Sam Liddicott: > With the GPL3 this is not true: at some time in the distribution chain, > derived works may have certain additional restrictions added, thus > licensing the combined work under the AGPL such that when an original > contributor receives the derived work with enhancements to his own work, > he may not distribute any combination of his work with any of those > enhancements unless he does so with the additional restrictions of the > AGPL. > > If the licensor finds this disparity objectionable then he may prefer to > use the GPL2. > > I believe that this implication is not widely understood and because > ealier versions of the GPL are widely known to prohibit the addition of > extra restrictions, this implication is also unexpected.
Oh, that is anything but unexpected for someone, who followed the drafting process. Section 7 of GPLv3 allowed some additional restrictions right from draft 1. Actually those additional restrictions were softened later. -- AKFoerster _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
