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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uunet!psinntp!dsh!gary From: gary@dragon.dsh.org (Gary D. Duzan) Subject: Re: [available] sound applications: xboing, tracker and NetBSD-0.8.sound Organization: Delaware State Hospital References: <1993Sep27.222859.135@ieunet.ie> <TRI.93Sep28091222@beta.hut.fi> <28a9vp$3dg@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> Message-ID: <CE44Bp.6tE@dragon.dsh.org> Distribution: inet Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1993 11:09:24 GMT Lines: 22 In article <28a9vp$3dg@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) writes: =>In article <TRI.93Sep28091222@beta.hut.fi>, =>Timo Rinne <Timo.Rinne@hut.fi> wrote: => =>>Of course he can grant additional permission to distribute his work if =>>he chooses to do so. Why couldn't he. It's his work and he can do =>>pretty much anything with it. => => 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. => But he still owns the original copyright, so he can make a new release under whatever terms he chooses, unless he has signed the copyright over to the FSF. The original release would still be bound by the terms of the GPL, but the subsequent release need not. Gary D. Duzan Humble Practitioner of the Computer Arts