Glenn Maynard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 09:02:47PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: >> I felt that while the initial developer is bound to release the same >> version under the QPL also, he/she is allowed to give to others >> permission to modify the differently licensed version with no "must be >> additionally available under the terms of the QPL" restriction. > > He doesn't have that permission himself. How can he possibly give it to > others? If he can't release just under the GPL, how can he allow me to?
Because there are three works in question: the original work A, and your patch to it P(A). Then there's the version the initial developer releases, B=A+P(A). He releases that to his dog under the QPL, so it's available, and sells it to me under the GPL. I don't see the separate patch, I just see this as work B. I make some further changes to this and release to the world under the GPL as work C. The "future version of the software" containing the work *you* contributed is still available to the world under the QPL. -Brian -- Brian Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
