Examining an attack on the GPL

Examining an attack on the GPL

Posted Nov 24, 2003 21:53 UTC (Mon) by vblum (guest, #1151)
In reply to: Examining an attack on the GPL by virtex
Parent article: Examining an attack on the GPL

Hm. The way I understood it: If you are the GPL distributor, _then_ you cannot distribute code to which anyone else has "proprietary" claims, such as a patent, or the purchase of the Unix source code - cough.

However, it does not excuse you from distributing your code under the GPL if it is derived from the GPL'd code of another party - simply because there is no external condition imposed on you that prevents you from distributing under the GPL.

Maybe I am wrong, but the language always seemed clear to me there ...

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