Re: [Nolug] RMS vs Cisco (Round 1 *ding*ding*)

On 12/15/08 10:09, Jeremy (mailing list box) wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
>> You can release patches under any license you please.
>>
>
> Not what the GPL says, Ron:
>
> c) You must license the entire work, as a whole, under this License to
> anyone who comes into possession of a copy. This License will therefore
> apply, along with any applicable section 7 additional terms, to the
> whole of the work, and all its parts, regardless of how they are
> packaged. This License gives no permission to license the work in any
> other way, but it does not invalidate such permission if you have
> separately received it.

Patches, by themselves, sitting alone by themselves in diff files,
are not the entire work.

The GPL, since it is concerned with *distribution*, allows the end
user to do whatever he wants with GPL'ed code, modify it as much as
he wants AS LONG AS HE DOES NOT REDISTRIBUTE IT.

-- 
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA
How does being physically handicapped make me Differently-Abled?
What different abilities do I have?
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