On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 19:09, John Cowan wrote: > David Presotto scripsit: > > > As an aside, it might have been less inflamatory if the license has said ``if > > source of the program and any derivatives is distributed under an inheritive > > license (e.g. GPL), it must ALSO be distributed under this license.'' > > Then Sean would always have access to changed code for his proprietary works > > if anyone has access to them. Someone must have suggested this already but > > I don't see it in the archive. > > No, no one has, and I think this is quite a clever idea. It's appropriate > to apply it to derivative works only, not to to distributions of > unchanged code.
I once asked Stallman about this and he claimed that such a license would be incompatible with the GPL. -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3
