--- On Tue, 12/14/10, Mathieu Bouchard <ma...@artengine.ca> wrote:
> From: Mathieu Bouchard <ma...@artengine.ca> > Subject: Re: [PD] libraries in Pd-extended 0.43 > To: "Hans-Christoph Steiner" <h...@at.or.at> > Cc: "PD List" <pd-list@iem.at> > Date: Tuesday, December 14, 2010, 8:56 PM > On Tue, 14 Dec 2010, Hans-Christoph > Steiner wrote: > > > I mean no disrespect. When you released > 'unauthorized' under the GPL, you made a promise to your > users that 'unauthorized' would remain free software. > That is the meaning of the GPL. > > That's not the meaning of it. > > The meaning of the GPL (or any other public license) is > that once you put something under the GPL, *that* version of > the software can be used under the same license forever. > However, the owners of the copyright can choose any other > license they want for the existing software as long as they > don't make them conflict (users get to pick the license they > want in that case). > > The owners of the copyright can also stop distributing the > GPL version, and make a series of versions under whichever > other license, and that's why the FSF considers forking to > be a most critical right : the right to continue to update > a free version of any software that has been free. > > You know this, and in effect, by volunteering as the > maintainer of «Unauthorized», you are forking it, or > announcing a pending fork (waiting for a diff to apply). So did the software in question _always_ have the conflicting licenses, or was it originally just GPL and in a subsequent version the other license was added? > > > _______________________________________________________________________ > | Mathieu Bouchard ---- tél: +1.514.383.3801 ---- > Villeray, Montréal, QC > > -----Inline Attachment Follows----- > > _______________________________________________ > Pd-list@iem.at > mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > _______________________________________________ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list