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

Rich Felker dalias at aerifal.cx
Wed Mar 15 00:54:32 CET 2006


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, 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. Anyone
care to do the research?

Rich




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