flattie amicus Rjack wrote:
This is the central flaw of the GPL license. It attempts to secure the exclusive rights of a
modifying author who accepts GPL code by attempting to force them to license their modifications
"to all third parties" under terms of the GPL. A "viral" public copyright
license is the very definition of copyright misuse.
What you are engaged in here is a tautological inexactitude. A license
can't be simultaneously exclusive or applicable 'to all'. And nowhere in
the GPL does the author rescind his copyright. In fact removal of the
copyright notice is a violation of the GPL ..
"the FSF decided long ago to allow developers to use GCC's libraries to
compile any program, regardless of its license"
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gcc-exception-faq.html
"Developers that use the GNU GPL protect your rights with two steps: (1)
assert copyright on the software, and (2) offer you this License giving
you legal permission to copy, distribute and/or modify it"
http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl.html
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