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Revocable GPL (Groklaw)Revocable GPL (Groklaw)Posted Jan 29, 2008 9:30 UTC (Tue) by kripkenstein (subscriber, #43281)In reply to: Revocable GPL (Groklaw) by ncm Parent article: The Non-Revocable GPL (Groklaw)
Those 100 people have licenses, and that license permits them to distribute it to more people, under the GPL, and so on and so forth. Yes, you can't get new copies *from the original author*. But who cares, get them from a single person who did get it from the author a ways back. In this way a GPLed source can never be revoked, _unless_ somehow all copies vanish from the internet.
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Revocable GPL (Groklaw) Posted Jan 29, 2008 14:54 UTC (Tue) by charlieb (subscriber, #23340) [Link] > In this way a GPLed source can never be revoked, _unless_ somehow > all copies vanish from the internet. Which, from just a little searching, appears to have happened here. Anyone have a URL?
Revocable GPL (Groklaw) Posted Jan 29, 2008 16:37 UTC (Tue) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458) [Link] Can't happen. Just need one person who has a copy stashed away somewhere.
Revocable GPL (Groklaw) Posted Jan 29, 2008 18:37 UTC (Tue) by Ross (subscriber, #4065) [Link] I agree. And if nobody has any copies of the GPLed software, then nobody has the right to ask for source code, and the GPL isn't really a factor.
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