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Revocable GPL (Groklaw)

Revocable GPL (Groklaw)

Posted Feb 1, 2008 21:36 UTC (Fri) by lysse (guest, #3190)
In reply to: Revocable GPL (Groklaw) by ncm
Parent article: The Non-Revocable GPL (Groklaw)

Have you raised this concern with the FSF? If it's a legitimate concern, (a) they need to hear
about it, and (b) they must have thought of it themselves.

However, I think you're wrong, and here's why:

The GPL, as applied by the author of a work to that work at the point of distribution, allows
anyone who receives the work to redistribute it under the terms of the GPL. Not to relicense
it under the GPL, but merely to redistribute it under those terms.

The terms of the GPL, of course, allow any recipient of the software to redistribute it under
the terms of the GPL.

There's an infinite loop built in there, and that's what stops it being a one-step-only
process. If the first redistribution is possible, the inherent loop makes every subsequent one
allowable.


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Revocable GPL (Groklaw)

Posted Feb 2, 2008 6:04 UTC (Sat) by ncm (subscriber, #165) [Link]

I suggest searching "begging the question" on Google.

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