[MPlayer-dev-eng] [RFC] pre8: regressions, critical bugs and activities

Diego Biurrun diego at biurrun.de
Wed Mar 15 08:30:23 CET 2006


On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 06:54:32PM -0500, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 11:19:37PM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > > 2. Remove the adv clause and use it as pure GPL.
> > 
> > This is of course not possible.  You cannot simply remove parts of the
> > license that you don't like...
> 
> Actually it's questionable. If they have any outside contributions
> which were made under the terms of the GPL,

I don't remember them accepting any.

> or if they include a copy of the GPL and claim the code is under GPL,
> then you can do anything the GPL allows, including removing their
> additional clause.

Each file clearly states the license and the additional clause it is
available under.  Reminds me that it's not a bad idea to make these
things clear in each file ;-p

Diego




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