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Not So SimpleNot So SimplePosted Dec 7, 2003 23:37 UTC (Sun) by ncm (subscriber, #165)In reply to: Not So Simple by piman Parent article: The GPL Is a License, not a Contract This is getting silly. Copyright law is about publishing. If you give somebody license to publish your book this year, you can decide to have somebody else publish it next year. Withdrawing your permission doesn't mean they have to recall and destroy all the books they published. It means they have to stop publishing. That's all it means. The case of software distribution is the same. When your license to publish is withdrawn, you just have to stop publishing. If you have a derived work, you should make sure that they have promised not to withdraw permission. The FSF makes that promise.
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