On Wednesday 06 September 2006 08:24 pm, Saswata Banerjee & Associates wrote:
> Huh ? I am guilty of not having read the GPL in full (too much > legal language). > And now you have me worried. > > GPL can be revoked ? Under what circumstances can it be revoked ? > So that will mean that after the GPL is revoked, you can not use > the software ? No. The gpl (or any copyright) can be revoked. But the earlier release and use is protected and cannot be revovked. so u can fork the earlier version and continue. US case law has well set precedents on this issue. Recent case jorg schillings cdrtools was relicenced only under the CDDL so Debian has thrown out cdrtools and forked a gpld version for further development. > Does the licensor have to inform each user separately or is the > user expected to keep track of it. Yes he has to. Which is one of the major pains to do any meaningful revocation. > What happens to any further distribution on it ? Fork the prevoius gpld version and continue. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
