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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!doc.ic.ac.uk!bright.ecs.soton.ac.uk!rsk From: rsk@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Bob Kemp) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Subject: Re: [available] sound applications: xboing, tracker and NetBSD-0.8.sound Date: 29 Sep 1993 12:02:34 GMT Organization: Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton Lines: 24 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <28btgq$i92@bright.ecs.soton.ac.uk> References: <hastyCDzEwM.384@netcom.com> <hastyCE0un7.8pA@netcom.com> <1993Sep27.222859.135@ieunet.ie> <TRI.93Sep28091222@beta.hut.fi> <28a9vp$3dg@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: frege.ecs.soton.ac.uk In <28a9vp$3dg@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) writes: > Once he surrenders the code to the GPL, any work based on > that code also falls under the GPL, even if he no longer wishes > it to be so. Surely you are confusing two things here: (1) releasing code under the GNU copyright statement (GPL) (2) giving the copyright to the FSF. Inevitably (2) will result in (1) but the converse is surely not so. The copyright holder could indeed grant extra permissions as they wished. Bob PS: I have no legal training. -- Robert Kemp Internet: rsk@ecs.soton.ac.uk Phone: (0703) 59 31 22 ECS Dept, Southampton Univ, Highfield, Southampton, S09 5NH, UK "Rose bushes have thorns; thorn bushes bear roses"