Re: GPL Compatibility of IFRIT License

2004-08-30 Thread Mark Hymers
On Mon, 30, Aug, 2004 at 01:16:16PM -0400, Brian Thomas Sniffen spoke thus.. Canonical answer: Yes, that's GPL compatible. The GPL requires *specific* plain markings: the dates of any change. Misrepresentation is illegal anyway, everywhere that matters. Anyone fulfilling the terms of the

Re: GPL or any greater version

2004-08-30 Thread Adam McKenna
On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 03:50:13PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: More fundamentally, my argument has been that GPL v2 only means only under the terms of GPL v2, which includes the later version option. That option is only available if the copyright holder has made it available in the license grant.

Re: GPL or any greater version

2004-08-30 Thread Adam McKenna
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 09:32:51PM -0400, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: Once you've distributed a change to gcc, the copyright holder is free to redistribute that change under any future version of the GPL, and there's nothing you can do to prevent that. [Your distribution can be only under

Re: GPL Compatibility of IFRIT License

2004-08-30 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Mark Hymers wrote: A wdiff between this and the VTK license shows that just the names of the contributors have been changed (as you'd expect). It appears to be a modified BSD license (i.e. without advertising clause) with one extra clause: * Modified source versions must be plainly marked

Re: GPL or any greater version

2004-08-30 Thread Brian Thomas Sniffen
Adam McKenna [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 09:32:51PM -0400, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: Once you've distributed a change to gcc, the copyright holder is free to redistribute that change under any future version of the GPL, and there's nothing you can do to prevent