On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > 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. > I think he meant `as it applies to new released versions'. No, given what he wrote in the part I did not quote, it is obvious that he means the promise attaches itself to a single physical copy of the work - not to other perhaps identical copies it. > Once GPLed, always GPLed. Courts are seldom impressed with slogans if they contradict the existing legal practise in the jurisdiction. -- Henning Makholm
