[EMAIL PROTECTED](none) (Byron Jeff) writes:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> mike3  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Here's the scenario:
>>
>>I have two programs, a GPL program and my own program, to which I
>>myself own the copyrights.
>
> The point is moot then. If you own the copyrights, you can do anything
> you like with the programs. Copyright is always about what rights the
> non copyright owner has, not the copyright owner.
>
>>Now, I take a couple of pieces of the GPL program and install them in
>>my own program,
>
> You've already stated that they are both your own program... 
>
> "[both], to which I myself own the copyrights."
[...]

I think what he meant was:

    I have two programs,
            a GPL program
        and
            my own program, to which I myself own the copyrights.

But the phrasing was ambiguous, and the use of "copyrights" rather
than "copyright" could easily imply that it applies to both programs.

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