(Half off-topic--this is referring to a Windows program, but the
question is probably of interest to people here anyway.)
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 12:23:38PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
Actually, that's not the case. CUPS *is* licensed under the GNU GPL, as
far as anyone can tell. Easy
Scripsit Glenn Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 12:23:38PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
In short, *any* addition or subtraction to the license terms of the GPL
made by an author is an act of dual-licensing. A copyright holder
can, of course, cease distributing a work
On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 15:34, Glenn Maynard wrote:
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 12:23:38PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
In short, *any* addition or subtraction to the license terms of the GPL
made by an author is an act of dual-licensing. A copyright holder
can, of course, cease distributing a
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 11:02:28AM -0400, Michael Sweet wrote:
Could someone fork CUPS and remove that exception from the fork? I
think that would be needed for GPL-compatibility
I think any fork would need to preserve the original license
conditions under the GPL, but IANAL.
Actually,
Branden Robinson wrote:
...
The bottom line is that a work is either licensed under the GNU GPL or
it is not. By all accounts, CUPS is licensed under the GNU GPL. It
just so happens that it is also licensed under other terms, presumably
to parties to whom the GNU GPL is unpalatable.
On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 14:20, Michael Sweet wrote:
OK, for the purposes of clarification, how does the following
additional sentence sound:
No developer is required to provide these exceptions in a
derived work.
I've put the ammended license agreement up on the CUPS server
for
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 03:20:37PM -0400, Michael Sweet wrote:
OK, for the purposes of clarification, how does the following
additional sentence sound:
No developer is required to provide these exceptions in a
derived work.
Sounds great. It sounds like we're utterly on the same
Branden Robinson wrote:
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My kudos to you for all of the above. It's refreshing to see a company
that has a solid grasp of free licensing, applies it to their products,
and puts things in plain language on their website instead of leaving
things ambiguous and using weasel words per their
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