Henning Makholm wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes: > > > All the owner can take back is the promise as it applies to new copies. > > That is bad enough as it is. It means that once the owner changes his > mind, we lose the right to make and distribute new modifications: > I might still have the right to make one modified copy of the work, > but I don't have any right to copy that one copy further. > > This still seems to imply that free software is not possible under > U.S. law...
I think he meant `as it applies to new released versions'. Once GPLed, always GPLed.
