the GNU GPL, and dual-licensing

2002-05-31 Thread Glenn Maynard
(Half off-topic--this is referring to a Windows program, but the question is probably of interest to people here anyway.) On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 12:23:38PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > Actually, that's not the case. CUPS *is* licensed under the GNU GPL, as > far as anyone can tell. Easy Sof

Re: the GNU GPL, and dual-licensing

2002-05-31 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Glenn Maynard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 12:23:38PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > In short, *any* addition or subtraction to the license terms of the GPL > > made by an author is an act of "dual-licensing". A copyright holder > > can, of course, cease distributing

Re: GPLed software and OpenSSL

2002-05-31 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Jeff Licquia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Because of the GPL's inability to distinguish between "proprietary" > > and "not GPL" (which has good legal-technical reasons) this means > > that Debian's role w.r.t. the exception MUST be that of the > > proprietary OS vendor, to the extent that Debi

Re: GPLed software and OpenSSL

2002-05-31 Thread Jeff Licquia
On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 16:43, Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit Jeff Licquia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Because of the GPL's inability to distinguish between "proprietary" > > > and "not GPL" (which has good legal-technical reasons) this means > > > that Debian's role w.r.t. the exception MUST be

Re: the GNU GPL, and dual-licensing

2002-05-31 Thread Jeff Licquia
On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 15:34, Glenn Maynard wrote: > On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 12:23:38PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > In short, *any* addition or subtraction to the license terms of the GPL > > made by an author is an act of "dual-licensing". A copyright holder > > can, of course, cease distri