For Approval: GPLv3

Alexander Terekhov alexander.terekhov at gmail.com
Sat Sep 1 23:48:36 UTC 2007


On 9/1/07, Chris Travers <chris.travers at gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
> BTW, I have asked everyone I can and have not gotten a difinitive legal
> explenation.  When I asked Eben Moglen, he said tht other licenses had to
> allow for distribution under the exact terms and restrictions as the GPL,
> and suggested that in the case of BSDL, this would be a sublicense
> arrangement (where the person who converts, essentially offers a new license
> with the permission of the copyright holder and is a party to that license).
>  When pressed about how this would work for linking exceptions, however, the
> conversation abruptly terminated. :-(

He probably went jogging.

regards,
alexander.



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