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[John Cowan]

David Johnson wrote:
 
> I think what John meant was similar to to following analogy: You are a book
> publisher and wish to release an anthology. All of the short stories you wish
> to include are licensed under the BSD license. You can release the anthology
> under the GPL license. A reader of your anthology cannot redistribute it
> under any terms except the GPL. However, a reader can redistribute the
> individual stories under the terms of the BSD license.

Just so.  However, there is nothing preventing a reader from concocting his
own anthology with the stories in reverse order, and releasing it under
any license he pleases, so my GPL license has little or no utility.

See my long posting for other variations on the theme.

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