At 02:46 01/12/2000 -0800, Adam J. Richter wrote:
>Simon Lucy writes:
> >The GPL licence covers the whole work, so
> >including any additional work with a work licenced under the GPL covers
> >that as well.
>
> Just to clarify, the copyright status of the additional included
>work is not changed. Either its copying permissions are already GPL
>compatible or the copyright owners of the GPL have not given you
>permission to distribute their work in this way (in the absense of
>some addition permission from them).
Ummm that doesn't clarify anything. The point is that if they are creating
their own additions then regardless of their own copyright incorporating it
into a GPL licenced work subsumes their additions into the GPL licence and
allows others to do as they wish (under the GPL licence).
But lets not get into another twist about licences and copyright.
Simon
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