In gnu.misc.discuss Doug Mentohl <[email protected]> wrote: > 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'. Oh yes it can. It can be simultaneously applicable 'to all'. I think that's know as a "pedantic inexactitude". ;-) -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
