Am Dienstag, 19. September 2006 22:23 schrieb Ari Johnson: > On 9/19/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Doesn't releasing the whole thing under GPL mean everything in the > > archive is GPL also? > > This might be the case, but the GPL probably only applies to > copyrighted material. It is perfectly possible that there are patents > on some of the file formats and that the GPL does not give you rights > to use those patents. But in the absence of anything like that, I > would think that anything that was sent along with a "this is released > under the GPL" notice would be covered by the license. If "this" == "anything that was sent", then yes. But as long as something (eg the readme) only says "you have this and that in here" and "this is released under the GPL", then you still don't know what "that" is released under. :(
--Dennis
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