> > The fact that it doesn't provide terms for any other cases, and another > > part of the license says "You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or > > distribute the Program except as expressly provided under this License".
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 06:10:46PM -0700, Adam McKenna wrote: > Are you saying your second quote applies to the copyright holder(s) as well as > distributors? Doesn't seem that way to me. It doesn't restrict what copyright holders can do. However, this doesn't mean that a copyright holder who distributes the GPL (version 2) with a prohibition on people distributing any other version has granted other people the right to distribute at all. Copyright holders are allowed to distribute software under terms where no one else can copy and distribute. -- Raul
